X-ray imaging using amorphous selenium: Determination of Swank factor by pulse height spectroscopy
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 25 (5) , 638-641
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.598245
Abstract
The use of photoconductors, especially amorphous selenium (a-Se), in x-ray imaging is currently of interest. A critical performance parameter of an imaging detector is the Swank factor for degradation of the signal to noise ratio, or DQE(0), due to variations in the detector response. The Swank factor is evaluated from measured pulse height spectra generated by the absorption of monoenergetic x-ray photons. The spectra show an additional width over previous theoretical expectations, but the Swank factor is still close to the high values previously predicted theoretically.Keywords
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