PHOTON COUNTING DEVICE AND PHOTON COUNTING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220066055A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17501398

    申请日:2021-10-14

    摘要: 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.

    PHOTON COUNTING DEVICE AND PHOTON COUNTING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20220035056A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17502424

    申请日:2021-10-15

    摘要: 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 voltages output from the amplifiers of the plurality of pixels to digital values; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital value output from the A/D converter to the number of photons by referring to reference data, for each of the plurality of pixels, and the reference data is created based on a gain and an offset value for each of the plurality of pixels.

    PHOTON COUNTING DEVICE AND PHOTON COUNTING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200374478A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16764066

    申请日:2018-06-18

    摘要: 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 voltages output from the amplifiers of the plurality of pixels to digital values; and a conversion unit configured to convert the digital value output from the A/D converter to the number of photons by referring to reference data, for each of the plurality of pixels, and the reference data is created based on a gain and an offset value for each of the plurality of pixels.

    PHOTON COUNTING DEVICE AND PHOTON COUNTING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200371261A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16764053

    申请日:2018-06-18

    IPC分类号: G01T1/24 H04N5/374 H04N5/376

    摘要: 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.