The FRONTier RADiography (FRONTRAD) collaboration is developing a digital system for mammography at the Elettra Synchrotron Light Source in Trieste. The system is based on a silicon microstrip detector array. The ASIC FROST (FRONTRAD Read Out sySTem) was developed as a collaboration between INFN Trieste and Aurelia Microelettronica and is designed to operate in single photon counting mode. FROST provides low-noise and high-gain performances and is able to work at incident photon rates higher than 100 kHz with almost 100% efficiency. The ASIC has been tested and the first images of mammographic test objects will be shown. The acquisition time per breast image should be of about 10 s.
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2003 | |
Titolo: | FROST: an ASIC for digital mammography with synchrotron radiation | |
Rivista: | NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01678-4 | |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000185127700008 | |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-0041510356 | |
Parole Chiave: | Digital mammography; single photon counting; readout ASIC | |
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