First CT using Medipix3 and the MARS-CT-3 spectral scanner

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Walsh, M F ^a   Opie, A M T ^b   Ronaldson, J P ^a   Doesburg, R M N ^b   Nik, S J ^b   Mohr, J L ^b   Ballabriga, R ^c   Butler, A P H ^a   Butler, P H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computerized Tomography (CT) and Computed Radiography (CR); Solid state detectors; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952689623     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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