Electron-multiplying CCD camera in X-ray imaging

The Toshiba Stroke Research Center at the University of Buffalo in New York has been developing a digital x-ray image receptor, coined as the solid state x-ray image intensifier with the advantage of flat panel detectors but with no lag or ghosting and has negligible instrumentation noise. The module is composed of an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device camera system. It images a scintillating phosphor via a fiber optic taper. The camera's sensor operates like a standard frame transfer CCD, with the addition of a unique multiplication register before the readout of the signal.