Flatfield correction optimization for energy selective X-ray imaging with medipix3

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3182-3189

  Procz, S ^a   Pichotka, M ^a   Lubke J ^b   Hamann, E ^c   Ballabriga, R ^d   Blaj, G ^d   Campbell, M ^d   Fauler, A ^a   Mix, M ^b   Zwerger, A ^a   Fiederle, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multispectral imaging; semiconductor radiation detectors; X ray detection

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MATERIALS; ENERGY THRESHOLDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW CONTRAST; MEDIPIX; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING; SEMICONDUCTOR RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR X-RAY DETECTORS; X-RAY DETECTIONS; X-RAY IMAGE; XRAY IMAGING;

DETECTORS; PHOTONS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS;

X RAYS;

EID: 83855165200     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2165732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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