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2 May 1997 6-MVp x-ray imaging with a transparent scintillator x-ray detector
Herbert D. Zeman, Sanjiv S. Samant, Jacob Rasmussen
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Abstract
In a previous paper an x-ray medical imaging system was described that used a liquid nitrogen cooled slow-scan CCD TV camera coupled to a Gd2O3(Eu) transparent ceramic scintillator plate with a high speed macro lens. This imaging system, which has a high spatial resolution and high x-ray quantum efficiency, suffers in the normal diagnostic x-ray energy range from added noise due to the secondary light photon quantum sink. For each x-ray photon absorbed, less than one electron is produced in a CCD pixel. However in the x-ray energy range used in radiation therapy the light output per absorbed x-ray photon is much higher, making the transparent scintillator technique more practical. Also the dose applied in radiation therapy is high anyway, allowing the use of higher dose to give better image quality. The 16-bit resolution of the cooled CCD allows very accurate x-ray absorption data to be acquired compared to the 8-bit CCDs used in commercially available portal imagers. Images have been acquired of human bones using the Gd2O3(Eu) screen and a 3 mm thick CsI(Tl) crystal.
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Herbert D. Zeman, Sanjiv S. Samant, and Jacob Rasmussen "6-MVp x-ray imaging with a transparent scintillator x-ray detector", Proc. SPIE 3032, Medical Imaging 1997: Physics of Medical Imaging, (2 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274006
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KEYWORDS
X-rays

Charge-coupled devices

Scintillators

Imaging systems

CCD cameras

Composites

X-ray imaging

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