Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radiation imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US16479276Application Date: 2018-02-19
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Publication No.: US10884143B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Masafumi Onouchi
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2017-042865 20170307
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/005791 WO 20180219
- International Announcement: WO2018/163782 WO 20180913
- Main IPC: G01T1/24
- IPC: G01T1/24 ; A61B6/03 ; G01T1/161

Abstract:
Provided is a radiographic imaging apparatus including a photon-counting detector that prevents variation in count rate performance by using self-heating of a photon-counting circuit, and improves accuracy in detecting photons. The photon-counting detector is provided with a semiconductor layer configured to generate electrical charge upon receipt of photons of radiation, a photon-counting circuit configured to read current values from pixel electrodes formed on one of the semiconductor surfaces, and a heat amount compensator configured to control an amount of heat of the photon-counting circuit according to a count rate of the photon-counting circuit. The heat amount compensator is activated when the count rate is low so that the amount of heat delivered from the photon-counting circuit when the count is low becomes nearly equal to the amount of heat delivered from the photon-counting circuit when the count rate is high.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190383954A1 RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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