Invention Grant
- Patent Title: X-ray detection device and detection method
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Application No.: US16094120Application Date: 2017-04-07
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Publication No.: US10591618B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Nishihara , Kenichi Okumura , Tsutomu Imoto , Masao Matsumura
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Priority: JP2016-086217 20160422
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/014456 WO 20170407
- International Announcement: WO2017/183481 WO 20171026
- Main IPC: G01T1/16
- IPC: G01T1/16 ; G01T1/208 ; A61B6/03 ; A61B6/00 ; G01T1/20

Abstract:
The X-ray detection device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a scintillator that generates scintillation light in response to incident X-rays; a detection unit including a plurality of pixels each generating a pixel signal in response to the scintillation light incident thereon; and an output unit that generates X-ray two-dimensional projection data by using the pixel signals of the pixels. A pixel of the detection unit includes a plurality of subpixels that performs photoelectric conversion in response to the scintillation light; an AD conversion unit that applies AD conversion to outputs of the subpixels; and an adder that generates the pixel signal corresponding to the pixel by adding up outputs of the plurality of subpixels after the AD conversion. The present disclosure is applicable to an X-ray CT device and an X-ray FPD device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190094391A1 X-RAY DETECTION DEVICE AND DETECTION METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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