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A CMOS APS for dental X-ray imaging using scintillating sensors

Abdalla et al., 2001

Document ID
6717409893980040011
Author
Abdalla M
Fröjdh C
Petersson C
Publication year
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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In this paper we present an integrating CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) circuit to be used with scintillator type X-ray sensors for intra oral dental X-ray imaging systems. Different pixel architectures were constructed to explore their performance characteristics and to study the …
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