Very large area CMOS active-pixel sensor for digital radiography

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2623-2631

  Farrier, Michael ^a   Graeve Achterkirchen, Thorsten ^a   Weckler, Gene P ^a   Mrozack, Alex ^b  

^a Rad icon Imaging   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS active pixel sensor (APS); Digital radiography; Dynamic range; Large area; Read noise; Tiled array; X ray imager

Indexed keywords

CMOS ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR (APS); DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC RANGE; LARGE AREA; READ NOISE; TILED ARRAY; X-RAY IMAGER;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SENSORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; PIXELS; RADIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350742997     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2031001     Document Type: Article

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