Photon counting energy dispersive detector arrays for X-ray imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2741-2748

  Iwanczyk, J S ^a   Nygard E ^a,b   Meirav, O ^c   Arenson, J ^c   Barber, W C ^a   Hartsough, N E ^a   Malakhov, N ^a,b   Wessel, J C ^a,b  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b Interon AS   (Norway)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; POWER GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS; ZINC;

APPLICATIONS.; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CADMIUM-ZINC-TELLURIDE; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT SCANNERS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAYS; HIGHLY EFFICIENT; NEW GENERATION; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PHOTON COUNTING; X-RAY DOSES; X-RAY FLUXES; X-RAY IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149084457     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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