ABSTRACT
Medical X-ray imaging is widely used for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Common diagnostic X-ray imaging applications include mammography, planar radiography, and computed tomography (CT). Mammography is used as a screening
3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 51 3.2 Conventional X-ray Computed Tomography Detectors .................................. 53 3.3 Lower Dose in CT with Photon-Counting Detectors ..................................... 55 3.4 Energy Information in CT with Photon-Counting Detectors ......................... 56 3.5 Photon-Counting X-ray Detectors in Medical Imaging ................................. 58 3.6 Direct-Conversion X-ray Detectors ................................................................ 59 3.7 Cadmium Telluride and Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detectors ......................... 61 3.8 Photon-Counting Cadmium Telluride Detector Design and Fabrication
for CT .............................................................................................................. 62 3.9 Photon-Counting CdTe Detector Characteristics ...........................................64
