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ArticleIEEE transactions on nuclear science2025

TlBr Films for Direct Digital Radiography.

M S Squillante, M J Breen, J F Christian, A Kargar, Y Ogorodnik, F Robertson, V Nagarkar, M R Squillante, L Cirignano, O Maksimov and 3 more

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Article in IEEE transactions on nuclear science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

M S SquillanteRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
M J BreenRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
J F ChristianRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
A KargarRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
Y OgorodnikRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
F RobertsonRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
V NagarkarRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
M R SquillanteRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
L CirignanoRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., 44 Hunt St, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA.
O MaksimovRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA.
H KimRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA, USA.
K KarimKA Imaging, Inc., 560 Parkside Dr, Unit 3, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
C ScottKA Imaging, Inc., 560 Parkside Dr, Unit 3, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

Semiconductor detector for low-dose, high-resolution dental DR imagingR44DE032290 · NIDCR · RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. · PI CHRISTIAN, JAMES F · 2022 to 2024
$2.0M
Innovative High Resolution Dental X-ray ImagerR44DE026373 · NIDCR · RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES, INC. · PI SQUILLANTE, MICHAEL R. · 2019 to 2020
$954k
NIDCR NIH HHS R44 DE026373NIDCR NIH HHS R44 DE032290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The detector that converts X-ray intensity into a digitized electronic signal, processed into an image, often limits the performance of modern X-ray imaging systems, whether for medical, research, or industrial applications. Digital radiography uses the following two types of detectors: indirect detectors, where a scintillating film converts X-ray into an optical signal read by an optical detector, and direct detectors using semiconductors. Semiconductor X-ray detector technology typically uses a silicon wafer, an amorphous Se (aSe) film, or a relatively thin CdZnTe crystal bump bonded to a readout platform. Although the use of aSe and CdZnTe improves the attenuation coefficient beyond that of silicon, a further increase in performance is highly desirable for improved imaging off higher energy X-rays (greater than 20 keV). This paper presents results on thallium bromide (TlBr) films coupled to a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC). Thallium Bromide, an attractive material for hard X-ray imaging due to its high atomic number and high density, achieves an image resolution of 20 μm as a 1 cm

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hard X-ray imagingintegrating ROICROICsemiconductor X-ray detectorThallium bromide

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PMID40453488
PMCPMC12121991

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