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Notebook #5
First Image: Direct conversion amorphous selenium flat panel imaging plate
Second Image: Indirect amorphous silicon flat panel imaging plate system.
A- CsI instillation
B- Silicon phottodiode
C- Thin film transistor matrix
D- Amplifiers
E- TFT matrix
F- Analog-digital converter
to digital.
The areas on an x-ray that do not turn out the way they should can be corrected on DR
Indirect detectors use a scintillator and a photodetector and include the ones used in CR
and DR, as well as CCD and amorphous silicon with a TFT. A CCD converts light to an
electrical charge, and the light produced form the x-ray interaction have to be coupled
with optics to the CCD chip. Once the CCD chip is hit, it gives off an electrical charge
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that is sent to the ADC where it creates the binary code for the computer to understand
and form an image. In the CMOS, it uses a scintillator to direct the light to the CMOS
electrical signal directly. In direct capture, amorphous selenium converts the beam to
electrons directly which are then captured by the thin-film transistor array. The digital
elements (del) that are in the TFT are what actually collect the electrons and generate an
electrical charge.