Synchrotron tests of a 3D medipix2 X-ray detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Pennicard, David ^a   Marchal, Julien ^b   Fleta, Celeste ^c   Pellegrini, Giulio ^b   Lozano, Manuel ^c   Parkes, Chris ^a   Tartoni, Nicola ^b   Barnett, Damien ^b   Dolbnya, Igor ^b   Sawhney, Kawal ^b   Bates, Richard ^a   O'Shea, Val ^a   Wright, Victoria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Position sensitive detectors; Silicon radiation detectors; Solid state detectors; Synchrotron radiation; X ray detectors; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SILICON RADIATION DETECTORS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; X-RAY DETECTOR; XRAY IMAGING;

MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SENSORS; SILICON DETECTORS; STANDARDS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 77950674529     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2037746     Document Type: Article

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