Abstract
As a continuation of our digital radiographic sensor R&D, we have developed a digital gamma imaging system based upon the cadmium-telluride ( CdTe ) photoconductor for the applications of industrial gamma imaging. The imaging system consists of a commercially-available CMOS pixel array of a 100 × 100 μ m 2 pixel size and a 5.4 % 151.0 mm 2 active area, coupled with a 750-μm-thick CdTe photoconductor, and a collimated selenium (75 Se ) radioisotope of an about 62.8 Ci activity and a physical size of 3.0 mm in diameter. In this study, we, for the first time, succeeded in obtaining useful gamma images of several test phantoms with the 75 Se radioisotope from the imaging system and evaluated its imaging performance in terms of the modulation transfer function (MTF), the noise power spectrum (NPS), and the detective quantum efficiency (DQE). For comparison, we also tested its X-ray imaging performance with a microfocus X-ray tube of an about 5 μm focal spot size at an operation condition of 90 kVp and 100 μA.
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