Energy resolving CT systems using Medipix2 and MHSP detectors

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Carramate, L F N D ^a   Nachtrab, F ^b,c   Firsching, M ^b   Silva, A L M ^a   Da Silva, A M ^d   Veloso, J F C A ^a   Uhlmann, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b Fraunhofer Development Center X Ray Technology EZRT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computerized Tomography (CT) and Computed Radiography (CR); Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC, GEM, THGEM, RETHGEM, MHSP, MICROPIC, MICROMEGAS, InGrid, etc); Pixelated detectors and associated VLSI electronics; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; ENERGY INFORMATION; ENERGY-RESOLVING DETECTORS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; VLSI ELECTRONICS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY DETECTOR;

DETECTORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84877752458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/8/03/C03022     Document Type: Article

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