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公开(公告)号:US11971511B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US17602868
申请日:2020-04-09
Applicant: Arktis Radiation Detectors Ltd.
Inventor: Ulisse Gendotti , Christoph Philipp , Rico Chandrasekharan , Mohsen Meshkian
IPC: G01T1/167 , G01T1/17 , G01T1/172 , G01T1/20 , G01T1/203 , G01T1/24 , G01T1/29 , G01T1/36 , G01V5/00 , G01V5/20
CPC classification number: G01T1/20182 , G01T1/167 , G01T1/17 , G01T1/172 , G01T1/20181 , G01T1/20184 , G01T1/203 , G01T1/242 , G01T1/243 , G01T1/248 , G01V5/20
Abstract: A panel radiation detector is provided for detecting radiation event(s) of ionizing radiation, comprising a plurality of adjoining plastic scintillator slabs, a plurality of silicon photomultiplier sensors arranged at an edge of at least one of the plastic scintillator slabs) and configured to detect scintillation light generated in the scintillator slabs responsive to the radiation events, and a plurality of signal processing units each connected to one of the silicon photomultiplier sensors, wherein the signal processing units each comprise a digitization circuit configured to generate a digitized signal for signal analysis by executing 1-bit digitization of a detection signal generated by at least one of the silicon photomultiplier sensors responsive to the detected scintillation light for determining the energy of the detected radiation event(s).
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公开(公告)号:US20240125948A1
公开(公告)日:2024-04-18
申请号:US18486026
申请日:2023-10-12
Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
Inventor: Joshua W. Cates , Woon-Seng Choong , Erik Brubaker
CPC classification number: G01T1/20184 , G01T1/248
Abstract: A single photon radiation detector is designed for a particular radiation source fluence, such that an incident radiation photon strikes a scintillator monolith, creating scintillation photons, which are amplified by appropriately sized channels of photomultipliers optically coupled to the scintillator monolith. The photomultiplier output is electronically shaped into a corresponding stream of scintillation pulses (otherwise referred to as scintillation photons) that pass through a comparator to produce a bitstream of the detected scintillation photons, which is sampled into a field programmable gate array (FPGA) acting as a giga-sample transceiver to produce time-to-digital conversions, capable of producing an output data stream of 10's-of-giga-samples per second or more. Appropriate design ensures sparsity of scintillation photon arrival, so that each photon in the bitstream corresponds to a single incident scintillation photon.
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公开(公告)号:US11953632B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-09
申请号:US17428131
申请日:2020-01-24
Applicant: ams International AG
Inventor: Jens Hofrichter
IPC: G01T1/24 , A61B6/00 , A61B6/42 , G01N23/083 , G01N23/10 , G01N23/18 , H01L27/146
CPC classification number: G01T1/247 , A61B6/4233 , G01N23/083 , G01N23/10 , G01N23/18 , G01T1/241 , G01T1/248 , H01L27/14661 , H01L27/1469
Abstract: The invention relates to an X-ray detector component comprising an X-ray detector chip made from a silicon substrate and comprising charge collecting electrodes. The X-ray detector chip is suitable for providing an X-ray-dependent current at the charge collecting electrodes. The X-ray detector component further comprises a CMOS read-out circuit chip comprising connection electrodes. The X-ray detector chip and the CMOS read-out circuit chip are mechanically and electrically connected in such a manner that the charge collecting electrodes and the connection electrodes are electrically connected. The invention further relates to an X-ray detection module, an imaging device and a method for manufacturing an X-ray detector component.
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公开(公告)号:US11714203B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-01
申请号:US17718711
申请日:2022-04-12
Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
Inventor: Makoto Nakazawa , Rikiya Takita , Fumiki Nakano
IPC: G01T1/24 , H01L27/146
CPC classification number: G01T1/241 , G01T1/248 , H01L27/1462 , H01L27/14663
Abstract: According to an aspect, an active matrix substrate of an X-ray imaging panel includes: an active matrix substrate having a pixel region including a plurality of pixels; and a scintillator that converts X-rays projected onto the X-ray imaging panel to scintillation light. The plurality of pixels include respective photoelectric conversion elements. The active matrix substrate further includes a first planarizing film that covers the photoelectric conversion elements, is formed from an organic resin film, and has a plurality of first contact holes and a first wiring line that is formed in the first contact holes and in a layer upper than the first planarizing film and connected to the photoelectric conversion elements within the first contact holes.
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公开(公告)号:US20180321391A1
公开(公告)日:2018-11-08
申请号:US15773997
申请日:2016-11-04
Applicant: RAYCAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (SU ZHOU)
Inventor: Xiaoke WU , Jun ZHU , Ming NIU , Tong LIU , Qingguo XIE
CPC classification number: G01T1/1642 , A61B6/037 , G01T1/161 , G01T1/164 , G01T1/1648 , G01T1/2006 , G01T1/248 , G01T1/29
Abstract: A method for real-time processing of a pulse pile-up event comprises the following steps of: generating a fitted baseline value lookup table and a fitted energy value lookup table for a pulse falling edge, using a multi-voltage threshold sampling method to identify piled-up pulses and trigger a procedure of processing pulse signals; and using pulse priori information and acquired pulse information to acquire information of an incorrectly sampled portion due to a pulse pile-up by looking up in the tables, so as to recover information of the pile-up pulses in real time. First, in the disclosure the multi-voltage threshold sampling method is proposed to identify pile-up pulses at a high count rate and trigger a procedure of processing pulse signals. Next, pulse priori information and acquired pulse information are used to acquire information of an incorrectly sampled portion due to a pulse pile-up by looking up in the tables, to recover information of the piled-up pulses in real time. The method according to the disclosure is simple, highly efficient, can be realized easily in a real-time data acquisition system of a detector level, and is still capable of achieving a preferable effect of recovering formation of piled-up pulses at a low sampling rate.
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公开(公告)号:US20180058924A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-01
申请号:US15464563
申请日:2017-03-21
Inventor: Graeme Storm , John Kevin Moore
IPC: G01J1/42 , H01L31/107
CPC classification number: G01J1/4204 , G01J1/0228 , G01J1/44 , G01J2001/442 , G01J2001/4466 , G01S7/4863 , G01S7/497 , G01T1/248 , H01L31/107
Abstract: An apparatus includes a single photon avalanche diode pixel that includes a single photon avalanche diode and an output transistor configured to provide an analog output current from the single photon avalanche diode. The single photon avalanche diode pixel is configured to operate in a first mode to output a digital single photon detection event. The single photon avalanche diode pixel is further configured to operate in a second mode to output the analog output current indicating a level of illumination of the pixel.
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公开(公告)号:US09903756B2
公开(公告)日:2018-02-27
申请号:US14938889
申请日:2015-11-12
Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
Inventor: Peter Hansen , Michael Casey , Stefan B. Siegel
CPC classification number: G01J1/44 , G01T1/248 , G01T1/2985 , H03K3/037 , H03K5/135 , H03K2005/00078
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided that minimize the effects of dark-current pulses. For example, in one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided where a first pixel is struck (i.e., a primary pixel). Pixels struck within a fixed time frame after the primary pixel is struck are referred to as secondary pixels. After a short fixed time frame has expired, the number of primary and secondary pixels is added. If the count exceeds a threshold, the primary pixel was activated by the first (or early) photon from a true gamma event. If the threshold is not met then it is likely the primary pixel generated a dark pulse that should be ignored.
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公开(公告)号:US09798020B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-24
申请号:US14830067
申请日:2015-08-19
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Chang Lyong Kim , William Todd Peterson , Vi-Hoa Tran , Sean Michael Bacon
CPC classification number: G01T7/005 , G01T1/1647 , G01T1/2018 , G01T1/248 , G01T1/249
Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing cathode calibration in a detector assembly. In one embodiment, a method comprises adjusting a cathode bias of a detector based on a total number of events occurring in the detector during a time period while maintaining an anode bias at a desired value, the events corresponding to photon energy detected by the detector. In this way, an automated cathode calibration procedure may be applied to calibrate the detector assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US09797772B2
公开(公告)日:2017-10-24
申请号:US14767911
申请日:2014-02-18
Applicant: AREVA NC
Inventor: Jean-Marc Fontbonne , Jean Colin , Cathy Fontbonne , Jacky Allee Jehanno
CPC classification number: G01J1/44 , G01J2001/442 , G01J2001/4466 , G01T1/248 , G01T1/40
Abstract: A method for controlling the gain and zero of a multiple pixel photon counter device, and light-measuring system implementing said method.Signals provided by the device are acquired for predefined periods, until a predefined total measurement time is reached, an amplitude histogram is formed from the acquired signals, the positions of two consecutive peaks, measurable on the histogram, are determined, an error signal is produced, which is equal to the deviation between both peaks and, by means of the same, the voltage supplying the device is regulated, so as to keep the deviation equal to a predefined set point.
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公开(公告)号:US09720109B2
公开(公告)日:2017-08-01
申请号:US14609193
申请日:2015-01-29
Applicant: General Electric Company
Inventor: Jianjun Guo , Sergei Ivanovich Dolinsky
CPC classification number: G01T1/248 , G01T1/2018 , G01T1/208
Abstract: A silicon photomultiplier array including a plurality of microcells arranged in subgroupings, each microcell of a respective subgrouping providing a pulse output in response to an incident radiation. Each microcell output interconnected by respective traces of equal length to either a summing node or an integrated buffer amplifier. Each respective summing node configured to sum the pulse outputs of a first subgroup of the microcell subgroupings, and each respective integrated buffer amplifier configured to sum the pulse outputs of each microcell of a second subgrouping, the respective integrated buffer amplifier located on the silicon photomultiplier array within the second subgroup of microcells. The plurality of microcells arranged in one of columns and rows, and a first group of the arranged plurality of microcells being a mirror image of a second group of the arranged plurality of microcells about a midpoint between one of the columns and rows.
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