NERS/BIOE 481
Lecture 10
X-ray Imaging Detectors

VI. Detection of Radiation Images (cont.)(Detailed Syllabus)

  1. Radiographic detectors
    1. Storage Phosphor Digital Radiography (CR)
    2. Phosphor - CCD systems
    3. Flat Panel Digital Radiography (DR)
    4. Large area detective efficiency, DQE(0)
    5. Rapid sequence acquisitions (fluoroscopy)
    6. Active Pixel Detectors
    7. Photon Counting Detectors (PCD)
Reading (pdf):
Assigned Schaetzing,RSNA03 15 pgs Computed Radiography (CR).
Assigned Yorkston,RSNA03 13 pgs Digital Radiography (DR).
Optional Cowen 2008 13 pgs Dynamic, Flat Panel X-ray Image Detectors
Reference Swank 1973 5 pgs Absorption & Noise in X-ray Phosphors.
Reference CsBr Patent 25 pgs US patent for CR needle phosphor.
Reference Samei 2003 15 pgs DQE for direct & indirect DR.
Reference Hunter 2012 15 pgs MTF of Se detector.
Reference Cahn 1999 5 pgs X-ray energy weighting in mammography.
Lecture Material:

slides(pdf,6.6MB) , printview(pdf,2.7MB)

Homework: L10-HW09   (pdf)
    Answer : L10-HW09+ (pdf)
Links
Varex Indirect DR detectors, Varex Imaging, CA, USA
Hammamatsu X-ray Flat Panel Sensors
XCounter CdTe photon counting x-ray imaging detectors, Sweden.
Duke-RAI Carl Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Duke, NC, USA.
NDT DR Digital Radiography, TWI, Cambridge UK.
DR Wiki Digital Radiography (Wikipedia).