Pulse pileup statistics for energy discriminating photon counting x-ray detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4265-4275

  Wang, Adam S ^a   Harrison, Daniel ^b   Lobastov, Vladimir ^b   Tkaczyk, J Eric ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

binning; CRLB; dual energy; photon counting; pulse pileup

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

BINNING; CRLB; DUAL ENERGY; PHOTON COUNTING; PULSE PILE-UP;

X RAY DETECTORS;

EID: 79960217963     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3592932     Document Type: Article

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