The solid state x-ray image intensifier (SSXII) in single photon counting (SPC) mode

Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist; Amit Jain; Daniel R, Bednarek; Stephen Rudin

doi:10.1117/12.843785

22 March 2010 The solid state x-ray image intensifier (SSXII) in single photon counting (SPC) mode

Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist, Amit Jain, Daniel R, Bednarek, Stephen Rudin

Proceedings Volume 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging; 76221P (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843785
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The new Solid State X-Ray Image Intensifier (SSXII) has the unique ability to operate in single photon counting (SPC) mode, with improved resolution, as well as in traditional energy integrating (EI) mode. The SSXII utilizes an electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD), with an effective pixel size of 32μm, which enables variable signal amplification (up to a factor of 2000) prior to digital readout, providing very high-sensitivity capabilities. The presampled MTF was measured in both imaging modes using the standard angulated-slit method. A measured detector entrance exposure of 24μR per frame was used to provide approximately 0.8 interaction events per pixel in the 10μm-wide slit area. For demonstration purposes, a simple thresholding technique was used to localize events in SPC mode and a number of such frames were summed to provide an image with the same total exposure used for acquiring the EI image. The MTF for SPC mode, using a threshold level of 15% of the maximum 12-bit signal and 95% of the expected events, and for EI mode (in parentheses) was 0.67 (0.20), 0.37 (0.07), 0.20 (0.03), and 0.11 (0.01) at 2.5, 5, 7.5, and 10 cycles/mm, respectively. Increasing the threshold level resulted in a corresponding increase in the measured SPC MTF and a lower number of detected events, indicating a tradeoff between resolution and count efficiency is required. The SSXII in SPC mode was shown to provide substantial improvements in resolution relative to traditional EI mode, which should benefit applications that have demanding spatial resolution requirements, such as mammography.

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Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist, Amit Jain, Daniel R, Bednarek, and Stephen Rudin "The solid state x-ray image intensifier (SSXII) in single photon counting (SPC) mode", Proc. SPIE 7622, Medical Imaging 2010: Physics of Medical Imaging, 76221P (22 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843785

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