Development of a fast read-out system of a single photon counting detector for mammography with synchrotron radiation

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lopez, F C ^a,b   Rigon, L ^b   Longo, R ^a,b   Arfelli, F ^a,b   Bergamaschi, A ^c   Chen, R C ^b   Dreossi, D ^d   Schmitt, B ^c   Vallazza, E ^b   Castelli, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data acquisition concepts; Instrumentation for synchrotron radiation Accelerators; X ray detectors; X ray mammography and scinto and MRI mammography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855420835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/12/C12031     Document Type: Article

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