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The key point of this chapter is to understand that the detector’s responses are based on physics. The basic concept of a photon counting detector is usually explained using figures like those seen in the previous sections (see Fig. 2.5), but this information is not adequate because the description in the figures does not consider the effect of physics found within a detector.
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Hayashi, H., Kimoto, N., Asahara, T., Asakawa, T., Lee, C., Katsumata, A. (2021). Radiation Detector Physics. In: Photon Counting Detectors for X-ray Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62680-8_3
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