• Patent Title: RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIATION COUNTING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGING METHOD
  • Application No.: US15560291
    Application Date: 2016-03-18
  • Publication No.: US20180049707A1
    Publication Date: 2018-02-22
  • Inventor: Takafumi ISHITSUIsao TAKAHASHIKazuma YOKOI
  • Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
  • Priority: JP2015-070281 20150330
  • International Application: PCT/JP2016/058725 WO 20160318
  • Main IPC: A61B6/00
  • IPC: A61B6/00 A61B6/03
RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, RADIATION COUNTING APPARATUS, AND RADIATION IMAGING METHOD
Abstract:
To improve performance in Photon Counting CT, pixel miniaturization, a reduction in circuit dead time, and dealing with scattered radiation and charge sharing are important. In addition, because the number of circuits increases, a reduction in power consumption of each circuit is important. Under these constraints, circuitry that deals with the scattered radiation is provided. Each pixel includes a circuit that determines whether radiation has been detected by another, adjacent pixel at the same time, and counters that count the radiation are switched on the basis of the result of the determination. On the basis of this result, counts of non-coincident events are primarily used, and coincident counts are used after being corrected, for reconstruction data.
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