Photon-counting radiography with the gas microstrip detector
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 44 (5) , 1317-1335
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/44/5/317
Abstract
We have built a proof-of-concept photon-counting x-ray imaging system using a Xe:CH4 gas microstrip detector (GMD) as the image receptor, and have used this system to demonstrate several advantages of photon counting over energy integration. Our experiments spanned x-ray spectra from 10 to 50 kVp and Xe:CH4 pressures from 1 to 4 atm. When photon counting is done, the energy deposited in the detector by each incident photon can be measured on adjacent anode strips and a centroid calculation can be used to provide spatial resolution significantly better than the anode strip pitch. We measured >11 lp mm-1 at 13 kVp with our 200 µm pitch detector, and 8.2 lp mm-1 at 50 kVp. The energy resolution of our GMD is 5.2% at 59.6 keV, and the space-charge limited counting rate is >2 × 106 mm-2 s-1 at 3 atm for a 30 kVp beam.Keywords
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