Photon counting energy dispersive detector arrays for X-ray imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 535-542

  Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Nygård, Einar ^a   Meirav, Oded ^b   Arenson, Jerry ^b   Barber, William C ^a   Hartsough, Neal E ^a   Malakhov, Nail ^a   Wessel, Jan C ^a  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CdTe; CdZnTe; Photon counting computed tomography; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE DETECTORS; CDTE; CDZNTE; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; CT SCAN; CT SCANNERS; CZT DETECTORS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR MODULE; DETECTOR STRUCTURE; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE DETECTORS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH FLUX; HIGH-COUNT RATE; IMAGERS; OUTPUT RATE; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTON STATISTICS; PIXEL PITCH; READOUT ELECTRONICS; RESPONSE SIGNAL; SHORT TIME FRAMES; TRANSIT TIME; X-RAY DETECTORS; X-RAY DOSE; X-RAY FLUX; XRAY IMAGING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC;

DETECTORS;

EID: 67649207868     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2013709     Document Type: Article

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