Advantages of Response Function Change in a transXend Detector with Various Scintillators as Substrates of Segment Detectors

To enable practical computed tomography (CT) that uses the energy information of X-rays, the “transXend detector” was developed to provide energy information about incident X-rays by measuring them as an electric current. The transXend detector requires a spectrum survey method in the unfolding process for measuring the energy distribution of incident X-rays, when the response functions of segment detectors have nearly the same behavior. When employing various scintillators with different effective atomic numbers and densities as the substrates of the segment detectors, better convergence is obtained in the unfolding process by using only one initial guess spectrum. Additionally, less dose exposure is possible when using the transXend detector with various segment detectors, compared with the transXend detector that consists of the segment detectors with the same substrate.