Characterization of a novel photon counting detector for clinical CT: Count rate, energy resolution, and noise performance

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Barber, William C ^a   Nygard, Einar ^a,c   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Zhang, Mengxi ^b   Frey, Eric C ^b   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^b   Wessel, Jan C ^c   Malakhov, Nail ^a,c   Wawrzyniak, Gregor ^c   Hartsough, Neal E ^a   Gandhi, Thulasi ^a   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^b  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Interon AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

ASIC; CdTe; CT; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

ASIC; CADMIUM TELLURIDE DETECTORS; CDTE; CDTE DETECTOR; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; COUNT RATES; CT; CT SYSTEM; DATA READOUT; DEAD TIME; DETECTOR MODELS; DETECTOR NOISE; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; DIRECT CONVERSION; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; INPUT RATE; LOW-DOSE CT; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MULTISLICE CT; NOISE PERFORMANCE; NON-PARALYZABLE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; TWO-DIMENSION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DETECTOR;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY TUBES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66849122104     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.813915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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