Signal transport in Computed Tomography detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 591, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-33

  Heismann, B J ^a,b   Batz L ^a   Pham Gia, K ^a   Metzger, W ^a   Niederlohner D ^a   Wirth, S ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Detector response function; Modulation transfer function; Scintillator detector

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTOR RESPONSE FUNCTION; SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 44649117043     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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