• DocumentCode
    985919
  • Title

    A high dynamic range current-mode amplifier for computed tomography

  • Author

    Steadman, Roger ; Vogtmeier, Gereon ; Kemna, Armin ; Quossai, Salah Eddine Ibnou ; Hosticka, Bedrich J.

  • Author_Institution
    Philips Res. Lab., Aachen
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    7/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1615
  • Lastpage
    1619
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we show a high dynamic range current-mode detector for computed tomography application. A regulated current mirror structure has been implemented at pixel level that provides with 17 bits dynamic range and a noise floor below 3 pARMS. Nonlinearity is kept below 2% and signal bandwidth is higher than 10 kHz. A test structure with 4times4 pixel array is presented is this paper. Both photodiode and current mode amplifier have been integrated into the same CMOS standard process
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; computerised tomography; current mirrors; current-mode circuits; photodiodes; CMOS standard process; computed tomography; current mirror structure; current-mode amplifier; Bandwidth; Circuits; Computed tomography; Detectors; Dynamic range; Electrical capacitance tomography; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Photodiodes; X-ray imaging; CMOS; computed tomography; image sensor; monolithic integrated circuit; photodiodes; x-ray;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JSSC.2006.873679
  • Filename
    1644872