Detective quantum efficiency of an energy resolving photon counting detector

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tkaczyk, J Eric ^a,b   Basu, Samit ^c   McDevitt, Daniel ^a,b   Li, Wen ^c   Du, Yanfeng ^a,b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b General Electric Security   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS;

ATOMIC NUMBER; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY (DQE); STATISTICAL INFORMATION;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 43149124995     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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