Fast photon counting CdTe detectors for diagnostic clinical CT: Dynamic range, stability, and temporal response

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Barber, William C ^a   Nygard, Einar ^b   Wessel, Jan C ^b   Malakhov, Nail ^b   Wawrzyniak, Gregor ^b   Hartsough, Neal E ^a   Gandhi, Thulasi ^a   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^a  

^a DXRAY INC   (United States)

^b Interon AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

ASIC; CdTe; CT; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CDTE DETECTOR; CLINICAL CT; COUNTING STATISTICS; CT; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; DIAGNOSTIC CT; DIRECT CONVERSION; DYNAMIC RANGE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; INPUT FLUX; LONG EXPOSURES; LOW FLUX; LOW-DOSE CT; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MULTISLICE CT; NOISE FLOOR; PHOTON COUNTING; RAPID CYCLING; SCAN TIME; SECOND GENERATION; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TIME INTERVAL; UNIFORM FLUX; WHOLE-BODY; X-RAY DETECTOR;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; PIXELS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 79959375109     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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