Tellurium and Nano-Tellurium: Medicine or Poison?

D Sári, A Ferroudj, D Semsey, H El-Ramady, EC Brevik… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Tellurium (Te) is the heaviest stable chalcogen and is a rare element in Earth's crust (one to
five ppb). It was discovered in gold ore from mines in Kleinschlatten near the present-day …

Evaluation of a Large Area, 83 m Pixel Pitch Amorphous Selenium Indirect Flat Panel Detector

K Hellier, I Mollov, A Swaby, P Pryor… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dual-layer detectors provide a low-cost solution to improved material decomposition and
lesion differentiation in X-ray imaging, while eliminating motion artifacts from multiple …

Evaluating the Effects of Breaking Vacuum During the Fabrication of Amorphous Selenium Detectors

K Hellier, M McGrath, S Abbaszadeh - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direct conversion X-ray detectors offer high spatial resolution and improved sensitivity over
indirect conversion detectors. As interest increases in their applications, including utilization …

Angle-Dependent Photoinduced Changes of Near-Infrared Transmission in Amorphous Selenium Films

K Hellier, E Enlow, S Montazeri… - … on Electron Devices, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Amorphous selenium (a-Se) is a promising semiconductor for a variety of photoconductive
applications, predominantly in X-ray detection. In addition, material properties introduce …

An alloyed a-Se-Te indirect flat panel imager for improved performance in a dual-layer x-ray detector

K Hellier, K Fusari, P Pryor, I Mollov… - … 2024: Physics of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Dual-layer detectors offer the potential for energy separation, allowing for lesion
differentiation and material decomposition without the effects of motion blur that occur in …

Improved temporal performance and optical quantum efficiency of avalanche amorphous selenium for low dose medical imaging

C Orlik, S Léveillé, SM Arnab… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Purpose Active matrix flat panel imagers (AMFPIs) with thin-film transistor arrays experience
image quality degradation by electronic noise in low-dose radiography and fluoroscopy …

[图书][B] Design of a Readout Amplifier for a-Se/CMOS Heterogeneous X-Ray Imaging in 130 nm CMOS

M Huerta - 2023 - search.proquest.com
As the need for precise, high performing imaging in applications such as medical imaging
and high energy physics increases, so does the need for sensitive image detectors to …