TY  - JOUR
CY  - US
TI  - X-ray Performance Evaluation of the Dexela CMOS APS X-ray Detector Using Monochromatic Synchrotron Radiation in the Mammographic Energy Range
SN  - 0018-9499
AV  - public
IS  - 5
EP  -  3980
N1  - © 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
KW  - Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)
KW  -  digital mammography
KW  -  image quality
KW  -  synchrotron radiation
Y1  - 2013/10//
N2  - Digital detectors based on complementary metaloxide-semiconductors (CMOS) active pixel sensor (APS) technology have been introduced recently in many scientific applications. This work is focused on the X-ray performance evaluation of a novel CMOS APS detector in low energy medical imaging applications using monochromatic synchrotron radiation (i.e., 17?35 keV), which also allows studying how the performance varies with energy. The CMOS sensor was coupled to a Thallium-activated structured cesium iodide (CsI:Tl) scintillator and the detector?s X-ray performance evaluation was carried out in terms of sensitivity, presampling modulation transfer function (pMTF), normalized noise power spectrum (NNPS) and the resulting detective quantum efficiency (DQE). A Monte Carlo simulation was used to validate the experimentally measured low frequency DQE. Finally, the effect of iodine?s secondary generated K-fluorescence X-rays on pMTF and DQE results was evaluated. Good agreement (within 5%) was observed between the Monte Carlo and experimentally measured low frequency DQE results. A CMOS APS detector was characterized for the first time over a wide range of low energies covering the mammographic spectra. The detector?s performance is limited mainly by the detectability of the scintillator. Finally, we show that the current data could be used to calculate the detector?s pMTF, NNPS and DQE for any mammographic spectral shape within the investigated energies.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2013.2276123
ID  - discovery1409756
VL  - 60
SP  - 3969 
A1  - Konstantinidis, AC
A1  - Szafraniec, MB
A1  - Rigon, L
A1  - Tromba, G
A1  - Dreossi, D
A1  - Sodini, N
A1  - Liaparinos, PF
A1  - Naday, S
A1  - Gunn, S
A1  - McArthur, A
A1  - Speller, RD
A1  - Olivo, A
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
PB  - IEEE
ER  -