A quantum-limited highly linear monolithic CMOS detector for computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 566-574

  Liu, Bing ^a   Yuan, Jie ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; High linearity; Synchronous partial quantization; Wide dynamic range

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY GAP; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHOTOCURRENTS; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; X RAY DETECTORS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CONSTANT CHARGES; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; RESIDUAL VOLTAGE; SYNCHRONOUS PARTIAL QUANTIZATION; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE (WDR);

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84861752563     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2011.2165416     Document Type: Article

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