A digital line-camera for energy resolved x-ray photon counting

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3453-3457

  Wang, Xiaolan ^a   Meier, Dirk ^b   Sundal, Bjorn M ^b   Oya, Petter ^b   Maehlum, Gunnar E ^b   Wagenaar, Douglas J ^c   Patt, Bradley E ^c   Tsui, Benjamin M W ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Gamma Medica Ideas AS   (Norway)

^c Ideas Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL LINE; MICRO CT; PHOTON COUNTING; POLYCHROMATIC X-RAYS; PRE-CLINICAL; PROJECTION DATA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SENSORS; TEST MATERIALS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; X RAY INTENSITY; X-RAY CT; X-RAY PHOTON COUNTING; XRAY IMAGING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; CAMERAS; MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951193270     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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