A tiled array of hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1824-1828

  Fornaini, Alessandro ^a   Boerkamp, Ton ^a   De Oliveira, Rui ^b   Visschers, Jan L ^a  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hybrid pixel detectors; Multilayer chipboard; Silicon arrays; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PIXEL DETECTORS; MULTILAYER CHIPBOARDS; SILICON ARRAYS; X-RAY IMAGING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; IONIZING RADIATION; MULTICHIP MODULES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON SENSORS;

HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 4444357363     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.832945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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