Oblique incidence effects in direct x-ray detectors: A first-order approximation using a physics-based analytical model

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2095-2098

  Badano, Aldo ^a   Freed, Melanie ^a,b   Fang, Yuan ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

detector response; direct detectors; indirect detector oblique incidence

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CESIUM IODIDE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; X RAYS;

ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIRECT DETECTORS; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; OBLIQUE X-RAY INCIDENCES;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 79953671749     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3567497     Document Type: Article

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