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Title Solid-State radiation detectors : technology and applications / edited by Salah Awadalla ; Krzysztof Iniewski, managing editor
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages) : illustrations
Series Devices, Circuits, and Systems
Devices, circuits, and systems.
Contents Modern Semiconductor Pixel Detectors Used as Radiation Monitors -- CdZnTe for Gamma- and X-Ray Applications -- CdTe and CdZnTe Small Pixel Imaging Detectors -- CdTe/CZT Spectrometers with 3-D Imaging Capabilities -- CdTe Pixel Detectors for Hard X-Ray Astronomy -- Technology Needs for Modular Pixel Detectors -- Single Photon Processing Hybrid Pixel Detectors -- Integrated Analog Signal-Processing Readout Front Ends for Particle Detectors -- Spectral Molecular CT with Photon-Counting Detectors -- Characterization of Photon-Counting Detectors with Synchrotron Radiation -- Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals as Novel Room-Temperature, Low-Cost Solid-State Direct X-Ray Detectors -- Lanthanum Halide and Cerium Bromide Scintillators -- Novel X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors Based on Metamaterials -- Gamma-Imaging Devices Based on Position-Sensitive Photomultipliers -- Silicon Photomultipliers for High-Performance Scintillation Crystal Read-Out Applications
Summary The book discusses the current solid state material used in advance detectors manufacturing and their pros and cons and how one can tailor them using different techniques, to get the maximum performance. The book is application oriented to radiation detectors for medical, X and gamma rays application, and good reference with in-depth discussion of detector's physics as it relates to medical application tailored for engineers and scientists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (CRCnetBASE, viewed on May 4, 2015)
Subject Radiation -- Measurement.
Radiation -- Measurement -- Equipment and supplies -- Materials
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
Radiation -- Measurement
Form Electronic book
Author Awadalla, Salah, 1960- editor.
Iniewski, Krzysztof, 1960- editor.
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