Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photon-counting X-ray CT apparatus and photon-counting X-ray diagnostic apparatus
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Application No.: US14942363Application Date: 2015-11-16
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Publication No.: US09778379B2Publication Date: 2017-10-03
- Inventor: Tomoe Sagoh
- Applicant: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-123752 20140616
- Main IPC: G01T1/17
- IPC: G01T1/17 ; G01T1/208 ; A61B6/03 ; G01T1/18 ; G01T1/20 ; A61B6/00

Abstract:
A photon-counting X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus of an embodiment includes photon-counting CT detection circuitry, integral CT detection circuitry, switching circuitry, and a feedback capacitance. Photon-counting CT detection circuitry outputs count values for respective energy bins, based on voltage pulses output from a feedback capacitance with electric charges output from an X-ray detection element configured to detect incident X-rays. Integral CT detection circuitry outputs an integral value, based on the voltage pulses output from the feedback capacitance with the electric charges output from the X-ray detection element. Switching circuitry switches between a case of transmitting the electric charges output from the X-ray detection element to the photon-counting CT detection circuitry and a case of transmitting the electric charges output from the X-ray detection element to the integral CT detection circuitry. The feedback capacitance is connected with the photon-counting CT detection circuitry and the integral CT detection circuitry in parallel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160070005A1 PHOTON-COUNTING X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND PHOTON-COUNTING X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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