Quality assessment of cadmium telluride as a detector material for multispectral medical imaging

Cadmiumtelluride (CdTe) is a high-Z material with excellent photon radiation absorption properties, making it a promising material to include in radiation detection technologies. However, the brittleness of CdTe crystals as well as their varying concentration of defects necessitate a thorough quality assessment before the complex detector processing procedure. We present our quality assessment of CdTe as a detector material for multispectralmedical imaging, a research which is conducted as part of the Consortium Project Multispectral Photon-counting for Medical Imaging and Beam characterization (MPMIB). The aim of the project is to develop novel CdTe detectors and obtain spectrum-per-pixel information that make the distinction between different radiation types and tissues possible. To evaluate the defect density inside the crystals - which can deteriorate the detector performance - we employ infrared microscopy (IRM). Posterior data analysis allows us to visualise the defect distributions as 3D defect maps. Additionally, we investigate front and backside differences of the material with current-voltage (IV) measurements to determine the preferred surface for the pixelisation of the crystal, and perform test measurements with the prototypes to provide feedback for further processing. We present the different parts of our quality assessment chain and will close with first experimental results obtained with one of our prototype photon-counting detectors in a small tomographic setup.Peer reviewe

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