Imaging performance of the hybrid pixel detectors XPAD3-S

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1773-1789

  Brunner, F Cassol ^a   Clemens, J C ^a   Hemmer, C ^a   Morel, C ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CDTE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; COUNTING STATISTICS; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIGITAL X-RAY DETECTORS; ENERGY DEPENDENCES; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGHER EFFICIENCIES; HYBRID PIXEL DETECTORS; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; INTERNAL NOISE; INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSIONS; LOW ENERGY BEAMS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHIES; MATERIAL SCIENCE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; NOISE POWER SPECTRUMS; PHOTON ENERGIES; PHOTON-COUNTING; RADIATION CONDITIONS; RADIATION QUALITIES; SINGLE PHOTONS; SMALL ANIMALS;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL DEVICES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LINEARIZATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; PIXELS; POWER SPECTRUM; READOUT SYSTEMS; SILICON; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

SENSORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

LINEAR MODELS; PHOTONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 63649143919     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/6/024     Document Type: Article

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