Large-area Amorphous Silicon Tft-based X-ray Image Sensors for Medical Imaging and Non Destructive Testing
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Large-format digital x-ray image sensors are a recent development in the fields of medical imaging and non-destructive testing. Such image sensors have become practical through the emergence of large-area, amorphous Silicon (a-Si) TFT and photodiode technologies (1,2). This paper will review the fundamental requirements for such x-ray image sensors, and discuss some of the device requirements for TFTs and photodiodes which serve as the basic components in each pixel.
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