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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2012.6.1.073

The Design and Fabrication of Conversion Layer for Application of Direct-Detection Type Flat Panel Detector  

Noh, Si-Cheol (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Kang, Sang-Sik (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Jung, Bong-Jae (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Choi, Il-Hong (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Cho, Chang-Hoon (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Heo, Ye-Ji (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Yoon, Ju-Seon (POSKOM Co., Ltd.)
Park, Ji-Koon (Dept. of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.6, no.1, 2012 , pp. 73-77 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, Interest to the photoconductor, which is used to flat form X-ray detector such as a-Se, $HgI_2$, PbO, CdTe, $PbI_2$ etc. is increasing. In this study, the film layer by using the photoconductive material with particle sedimentation was fabricated and evaluated. The quantization efficiency of the continuous X-ray with the 70 kVp energy bandwidth was analyzed by using the Monte Carlo simulation. With the results, the thickness of film with 64 % quantization efficiency was 180 ${\mu}m$ which is similar to the efficiency of 500 ${\mu}m$ a-Se film. And $HIg_2$ film has the high quantization efficiency of 74 % on 240 ${\mu}m$ thickness. The electrical characteristics of the 239 ${\mu}m$ $Hgl_2$ films produced by particle sedimentation were shown as very low dark current(under 10 $pA/mm^2$), and high sensitivity(19.8 mC/mR-sec) with 1 $V/{\mu}m$ input voltage. The SNR, which is influence to the contrast of X-ray image, was shown highly as 3,125 in low driving voltage on 0.8 $V/{\mu}m$. With the results of this study, the development of the low-cost, high-performance image detector with film could be possible by replacing the film produced by particle sedimentation instead to a-Se detector.
Keywords
detector; X-ray image; particle sedimentation; $HgI_2$; SNR;
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