タイトル | Evaluation of a ''CMOS'' Imager for Shadow Mask Hard X-ray Telescope |
著者(英) | Oergerle, William R.; Orwig, Larry E.; Desai, Upendra D. |
著者所属(英) | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
発行日 | 2002-01-01 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | We have developed a hard x-ray coder that provides high angular resolution imaging capability using a coarse position sensitive image plane detector. The coder consists of two Fresnel zone plates. (FZP) Two such 'FZP's generate Moire fringe patterns whose frequency and orientation define the arrival direction of a beam with respect to telescope axis. The image plane detector needs to resolve the Moire fringe pattern. Pixilated detectors can be used as an image plane detector. The recently available 'CMOS' imager could provide a very low power large area image plane detector for hard x-rays. We have looked into a unit made by Rad-Icon Imaging Corp. The Shadow-Box 1024 x-ray camera is a high resolution 1024xl024 pixel detector of 50x50 mm area. It is a very low power, stand alone camera. We present some preliminary results of our investigation of evaluation of such camera. |
NASA分類 | Optics |
権利 | No Copyright |
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