TY - JOUR
T1 - Tutorial on X-ray photon counting detector characterization
AU - Ren, Liqiang
AU - Zheng, Bin
AU - Liu, Hong
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported in part by a grant from the University of Oklahoma Charles and Peggy Stephenson Cancer Center funded by the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, and supported in part by NIH under grant R01 CA193378
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 - IOS Press and The Authors. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - BACKGROUND: Recent advances in photon counting detection technology have led to significant research interest in X-ray imaging. OBJECTIVE: As a tutorial level review, this paper covers a wide range of aspects related to X-ray photon counting detector characterization. METHODS: The tutorial begins with a detailed description of the working principle and operating modes of a pixelated X-ray photon counting detector with basic architecture and detection mechanism. Currently available methods and techniques for charactering major aspects including energy response, noise floor, energy resolution, count rate performance (detector efficiency), and charge sharing effect of photon counting detectors are comprehensively reviewed. Other characterization aspects such as point spread function (PSF), line spread function (LSF), contrast transfer function (CTF), modulation transfer function (MTF), noise power spectrum (NPS), detective quantum efficiency (DQE), bias voltage, radiation damage, and polarization effect are also remarked. RESULTS: A cadmium telluride (CdTe) pixelated photon counting detector is employed for part of the characterization demonstration and the results are presented. CONCLUSIONS: This review can serve as a tutorial for X-ray imaging researchers and investigators to understand, operate, characterize, and optimize photon counting detectors for a variety of applications.
AB - BACKGROUND: Recent advances in photon counting detection technology have led to significant research interest in X-ray imaging. OBJECTIVE: As a tutorial level review, this paper covers a wide range of aspects related to X-ray photon counting detector characterization. METHODS: The tutorial begins with a detailed description of the working principle and operating modes of a pixelated X-ray photon counting detector with basic architecture and detection mechanism. Currently available methods and techniques for charactering major aspects including energy response, noise floor, energy resolution, count rate performance (detector efficiency), and charge sharing effect of photon counting detectors are comprehensively reviewed. Other characterization aspects such as point spread function (PSF), line spread function (LSF), contrast transfer function (CTF), modulation transfer function (MTF), noise power spectrum (NPS), detective quantum efficiency (DQE), bias voltage, radiation damage, and polarization effect are also remarked. RESULTS: A cadmium telluride (CdTe) pixelated photon counting detector is employed for part of the characterization demonstration and the results are presented. CONCLUSIONS: This review can serve as a tutorial for X-ray imaging researchers and investigators to understand, operate, characterize, and optimize photon counting detectors for a variety of applications.
KW - Charge sharing effect
KW - Count rate performance
KW - Detector characterization
KW - Energy resolution
KW - Energy response calibration
KW - Noise floor
KW - Photon counting detector
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U2 - 10.3233/XST-16210
DO - 10.3233/XST-16210
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29154310
AN - SCOPUS:85043583571
SN - 0895-3996
VL - 26
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology
JF - Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -