Pulse pileup statistics for energy sensitive photon counting detectors with pulse height analysis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8313, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^a   Srivastava, Somesh ^a   Tang, Qiulin ^a   Caffo, Brian S ^a   Iwanczyk, Jan S ^b   Hartsough, Neal E ^b   Barber, William C ^b   Cammin, Jochen ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DXRAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEADTIME; DETECTION SCHEME; ENERGY SENSITIVE; ENERGY WINDOWS; LONG TAIL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; PULSE PILE-UP; PULSE SHAPES; PULSE-HEIGHT ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; UNIPOLAR PULSE; VARIANCE-TO-MEAN RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84860381355     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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