A high position resolution X-ray detector: An "Edge on" illuminated capillary plate combined with a gas amplification structure

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Iacobaeus C., Francke T., Lund-Jensen B., Ostling J., Pavlopoulos P., Peskov V., ...More

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, vol.53, no.2, pp.554-561, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 53 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Doi Number: 10.1109/tns.2006.872635
  • Journal Name: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.554-561
  • Keywords: capillary plates, gaseous detectors, mammography, X-ray imaging, GASEOUS DETECTORS, DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY, RADIOGRAPHY, APPLICATIONS/
  • Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: No

Abstract

We have developed and successfully tested a prototype of a new high position resolution hybrid X-ray detector. It contains a thin-wall lead glass capillary plate converter of X-rays combined with a microgap parallel-plate avalanche chamber operating in various gas mixtures at 1 atm.