Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radiation imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
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Application No.: US15564946Application Date: 2016-06-17
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Publication No.: US10197684B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Kosuke Terui , Shinichi Takeda , Katsuro Takenaka , Sho Sato , Atsushi Iwashita , Yoshiaki Ishii
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2015-139104 20150710
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/002934 WO 20160617
- International Announcement: WO2017/010045 WO 20170119
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; A61B6/00 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/32 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/363

Abstract:
A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a scintillator configured to convert radiation into light, a sensor panel in which a plurality of pixels each comprising a light detector configured to detect the light is arranged in a two-dimensional array, and a processing unit. The processing unit comprises a signal generating unit configured to output signals indicating intensities of the light detected by the light detector of each of the plurality of pixels, and a detection unit configured to identify a group of pixels each of which outputs a signal of a level exceeding a reference value out of the signals and detect, based on a pattern of the group, pileup in which a plurality of radiation photons is detected as a single radiation photon.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180136343A1 RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2018-05-17
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