Development of active matrix flat panel imagers incorporating thin layers of polycrystalline HgI2for mammographic x-ray imaging
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Investigation of the signal behavior at diagnostic energies of prototype, direct detection, active matrix, flat-panel imagers incorporating polycrystalline HgI2.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics in Medicine and Biology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0031-9155,1361-6560
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/3/703