Polycrystalline mercuric iodide films on CMOS readout arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1810-1816

  Hartsough, Neal E ^a   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a   Nygard, Einar ^a,b   Malakhov, Nail ^a,b   Barber, William C ^a   Gandhi, Thulasidharan ^a  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b Interon AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Detector; Digital x ray; Mercuric iodide; Polycrystalline; X ray; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL X-RAY; MERCURIC IODIDE; POLYCRYSTALLINE; X-RAY; X-RAY IMAGING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; READOUT SYSTEMS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

PIXELS;

EID: 69549090280     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2023478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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