Light-Response Characteristics of Amorphous Silicon Arrays for Megavoltage and Diagnostic Imaging

Abstract

ABSTRACTLight-sensitive hydrogenated amorphous silicon pixel arrays are now under development for real-time megavoltage and diagnostic fluoroscopic imaging. Such applications place stringent demands upon a variety of array properties including the uniformity of the light-response function of the pixels. It is desirable that the design and fabrication of these imaging arrays maximize such uniformity. The implications of uniformity for imaging are reviewed, and data obtained from small arrays are presented and discussed.