Vision 20/20: single photon counting x‐ray detectors in medical imaging

K Taguchi, JS Iwanczyk - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Photon counting detectors (PCDs) with energy discrimination capabilities have been
developed for medical x‐ray computed tomography (CT) and x‐ray (XR) imaging. Using …

10 years of the Medipix2 Collaboration

M Campbell… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Medipix2 Collaboration was started officially in September 1999 with the aim of
disseminating hybrid pixel detector technology from High Energy Physics to other fields. The …

Noise reduction in spectral CT: Reducing dose and breaking the trade‐off between image noise and energy bin selection

S Leng, L Yu, J Wang, JG Fletcher, CA Mistretta… - Medical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Our purpose was to reduce image noise in spectral CT by exploiting data
redundancies in the energy domain to allow flexible selection of the number, width, and …

Semiconductor pixel detectors and their applications in life sciences

J Jakůbek - Journal of Instrumentation, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in semiconductor technology allow construction of highly efficient and low
noise pixel detectors of ionizing radiation. Steadily improving quality of front end electronics …

X-ray and gamma imaging with Medipix and Timepix detectors in medical research

S Procz, C Avila, J Fey, G Roque, M Schuetz… - Radiation …, 2019 - Elsevier
The innovations brought by Medipix and Timepix detector readout chips have improved
medical imaging. Firstly, the small pixel size enables a very high spatial resolution in …

Experimental evaluation of material identification methods with CdTe X-ray spectrometric detector

J Rinkel, G Beldjoudi, V Rebuffel… - … on Nuclear Science, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to experimentally evaluate a new material multidimensional method for
material identification using a new CdTe spectrometric detector. LETI has developed a 16 …

An optimised method for material identification using a photon counting detector

G Beldjoudi, V Rebuffel, L Verger, V Kaftandjian… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2012 - Elsevier
X-ray photon counting detectors have become a competitive alternative to energy integrating
systems in certain domains. However, processing methods currently used in radiography for …

[PDF][PDF] New perspectives of X-ray techniques for explosive detection based on CdTe/CdZnTe spectrometric detectors

V Rebuffel, J Rinkel, J Tabary, L Verger - Proc. of the Int. Symp. on …, 2011 - dir2011.com
Conventional explosive detection systems (EDS) based on X-ray technologies are using
dual-energy radiography; they provide only a crude material characterization. Recently …

BrachyView: Proof‐of‐principle of a novel in‐body gamma camera for low dose‐rate prostate brachytherapy

M Petasecca, KJ Loo, M Safavi‐Naeini, Z Han… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The conformity of the achieved dose distribution to the treatment plan strongly
correlates with the accuracy of seed implantation in a prostate brachytherapy treatment …

Analysis of painted arts by energy sensitive radiographic techniques with the Pixel Detector Timepix

J Zemlicka, J Jakubek, M Kroupa, D Hradil… - Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-invasive techniques utilizing X-ray radiation offer a significant advantage in scientific
investigations of painted arts and other cultural artefacts such as painted artworks or statues …