| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8180846 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The present authors developed the transXend detector, which measures incident X-rays as current and also gives their energy distribution after an unfolding process with using previously obtained response functions. This detector enables X-ray energy-resolved computed tomography (CT). To incorporate the transXend detector into a third-generation CT scanner, a flat panel detector (FPD) made of CdTe pixels is employed with placing a variable number of aluminum absorbers in front of the FPD. Although changing the number of absorbers can be time consuming, the time necessary to generate a CT image is much less when compared with image acquisition by first-generation CT.
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Authors
Ikuo Kanno, Ryo Imamura, Yuko Minami, Masahiko Ohtaka, Makoto Hashimoto, Kuniaki Ara, Hideaki Onabe,