Integration of Digital Detectors into a Diffraction Enhanced Imaging System

Abstract

Three x-ray detector systems - storage phosphor, a prototype CCD, and a production monel CCD were compared with respect to format, resolution, quantum efficiency, and systematics using synchrotron radiation in the range 15-40 keV. Overall, the CCDs performed faster than the storage phosphor and possessed higher quantum efficiencies. However, the storage phosphor had a superior spatial resolution (Modulation Transfer Function), and its larger format lends itself better to mammographic imaging than the smaller format CCDs. As a result of this comparison, criteria are being developed for selecting digital detection systems for the synchrotron-based diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) system at the National Synchrotron Light Source, and for a clinical prototype for mammography using DEI.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADB262261

Entities

People

  • Dale E. Sayers
  • Harald Ade
  • Miklos Kiss

Organizations

  • North Carolina State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Contractors
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Efficiency
  • Governments
  • Ionization Chambers
  • Light Sources
  • Mammography
  • North Carolina
  • Prototypes
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Radiation
  • Synchrotron Radiation
  • Synchrotrons
  • Transfer Functions
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing