Photon counting multienergy x-ray imaging: Effect of the characteristic x rays on detector performance

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5107-5119

  Shikhaliev, Polad M ^a   Fritz, Shannon G ^a   Chapman, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic radiation; Multienergy imaging; Photon counting; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOLE TRAPS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; Z TRANSFORMS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE DETECTORS; CHARACTERISTIC X RAYS; INTEGRATING DETECTORS; MULTI-ENERGY X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTIENERGY; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; XRAY IMAGING;

X RAY DETECTORS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ENERGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON COUNTING X RAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY;

EID: 70350725909     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3245875     Document Type: Article

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