General Electric Company

Albert Taesung Byun

Charles Gerard Woychik

Robert Gideon Wodnicki

Rayette Ann Fisher

Changlyong Kim

Shubhra Bansal

A multichannel ASIC for interfacing with an array of photodetectors in a PET imaging system includes a front-end circuit configured to be coupled to the array of photodetectors and to receive analog signals therefrom. The ASIC includes a time discriminating circuit including a low input impedance amplifier configured to be coupled to the array of photodetectors and to receive a signal summing the analog signals from the array of photodetectors and to generate a hit signal for timing pickoff based on the signal. The ASIC includes an energy circuit operably coupled to the front-end circuit and configured to generate a summed energy output signal based on each of the analog signals and summed positional output signal based on each of the analog signals.

Readout electronics architecture with improved timing resolution

A modular and tileable sensor array with routing in the interposer carrying the signals from the sensors to the integrated circuits. In one embodiment a large area modular sensor array assembly includes one or more tileable modules coupled together. The tileable modules have a plurality of transducer cells forming a sensor, an interposer coupled on a first side to the plurality of transducer cells by a plurality, one or more integrated circuits coupled to a second side of the interposer, wherein the interposer is configured to form the connection of at least some of the transducer cells to the integrated circuits, and one or more input/output connectors coupled to the interposer and providing an external interface.

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Guilderland, NY, United States of America

Albert Taesung Byun