Testing an energy-dispersive counting-mode detector with hard X-rays from a synchrotron source

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1785-1790

  Bäumer, Christian ^a   Martens, Gerhard ^a   Menser, Bernd ^a   Roessl, Ewald ^a   Schlomka, Jens Peter ^a   Steadman, Roger ^a   Zeitler, Günter ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coincidence; Photon counting; Pulse pile up; Synchrotron; X ray detector; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS;

COUNT RATES; DATA READOUT; EN ERGY SPECTRUM; ENERGY RESPONSES; HARD X-RAYS (HX); IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IN ORDER; INCIDENT RATES; MAXIMUM ENERGY; PERIODIC SOURCE; PIXEL PITCHES; PULSE PILE-UP; RADIATION SOURCES; RATE BEHAVIOR; SCAN MODE; SYNCHROTRON SOURCES; X-RAY DETECTORS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 45849108387     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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