Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photon counting device and photon counting method
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Application No.: US17501398Application Date: 2021-10-14
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Publication No.: US11796692B2Publication Date: 2023-10-24
- Inventor: Tadashi Maruno , Eiji Toda , Mao Nakajima , Teruo Takahashi , Takafumi Higuchi
- Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Agency: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP 17225861 2017.11.24
- Main IPC: G01T1/24
- IPC: G01T1/24 ; H04N25/65 ; H04N25/74 ; H04N25/75 ; H04N25/767 ; H04N25/772 ; H04N25/778 ; G01T1/208

Abstract:
A photon counting device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to convert input light to charge, and an amplifier configured to amplify the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion element and convert the charge to a voltage, an A/D converter configured to convert the voltage output from the amplifier of each of the plurality of pixels to a digital value and output the digital value, a correction unit configured to correct the digital value output from the A/D converter so that an influence of a variation in a gain and an offset value among the plurality of pixels is curbed, a calculation unit configured to output a summed value obtained by summing the corrected digital values corresponding to at least two pixels, and a conversion unit configured to convert the summed value output from the calculation unit to a number of photons.
Public/Granted literature
- US11835667B2 Photon counting device and photon counting method Public/Granted day:2023-12-05
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