Large area photon counting x-ray imaging arrays for clinical dual-energy applications

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3029-3031

  Barber, William C ^a   Nygard, Einar ^b   Wessel, Jan C ^b   Malakhov, Nail ^b   Wawrzyniak, Gregor ^b   Hartsough, Neal E ^a   Gandhi, Thulasi ^a   Beck, Tom J ^c   Taguchi, Ken ^c   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b Interon AS   (Norway)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL IMAGING; DETECTOR NOISE; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; DIRECT CONVERSION; DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DUAL-ENERGY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LARGE AREA ARRAYS; LARGE AREA DETECTOR; LOW ENERGIES; LOW NOISE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; NOISE FLOOR; NOISE PERFORMANCE; ONE DIMENSION; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; XRAY IMAGING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FLOORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY ANALYSIS;

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EID: 77951156410     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401581     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. J. S. Iwanczyk, E. Nygard, O. Meirav, J. Arenson, W. C. Barber, N. E. Hartsough, N. Malakhov, and J. C. Wessel, "Photon counting energy disparsive detector arrays for x-ray imaging", Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56(3), 535 (2009).
2. W.C. Barber, E. Nygard, J.S. Iwanczyk, M. Zhang, E. Frey, B. Tsui, J.C. Wessel, N. Malakhov, G. Wawrzyniak, N.E. Hartsough, T. Gandhi, and K. Taguchi, "Characterization of a novel photon counting detector for clinical CT: count rate, energy resolution, and noise performance", Physics of Medical Imaging, SPIE, 7258, 241 (2009).