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US09588240B1 Digital readout architecture for four side buttable digital X-ray detector
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数字读出架构,用于四面对面的数字X射线探测器
- Patent Title: Digital readout architecture for four side buttable digital X-ray detector
- Patent Title (中): 数字读出架构,用于四面对面的数字X射线探测器
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Application No.: US14923812Application Date: 2015-10-27
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Publication No.: US09588240B1Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Inventor: Ibrahim Issoufou Kouada , Brian David Yanoff , Jonathan David Short , Jianjun Guo , Biju Jacob
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Agent Melissa K. Dobson
- Main IPC: G01T1/24
- IPC: G01T1/24

Abstract:
An imager tile including four-side buttable sub-imager pixel arrays with on-chip digitizing electronic readout circuit. Pixel groupings formed from among the plurality of imagers. Readout electronics including a buffer amplifier for each of the pixel groupings are connected to respective outputs of buttable imagers. Shared analog front ends connect to respective buffer amplifiers of pixel groupings. An analog-to-digital converter at a common centroid location relative to the shared analog front ends includes three data lines—selection input/output line to individually select an output, a clock input line, and a shared digital output line. A pixel output from a respective buffer amplifier is addressable by data provided on the selection input/output line, and the pixel output is provided on the shared digital output line. The I/O lines connected to a programmable logic device where the imager serial data input is output as a massively parallel data stream.
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