Monte Carlo simulation of amorphous Selenium imaging detectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Fang, Yuan ^a,b   Badal, Andreu ^b   Allec, Nicholas ^a   Karim, Karim S ^a   Badano, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous Selenium; Digital detector model; Monte Carlo simulation; PENELOPE

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; ATOMIC PROPERTIES; BIMOLECULAR RECOMBINATION; CARRIER TRAPPING; DESIGN VALIDATION; DIGITAL DETECTOR; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; ENERGY RANGES; GENERALIZED OSCILLATOR STRENGTH MODELS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING DETECTOR; INELASTIC COLLISION; MC SIMULATION; MODULAR SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PARTICLE TRACKS; PENELOPE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SIGNAL FORMATION; SIMULATION MODEL; STOPPING POWER; X RAY PHOTONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; PLASMA COLLISION PROCESSES; SECONDARY EMISSION; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SUBROUTINES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79953671061     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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