General Electric Company

Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

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Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Habib Vafi

Scott William Petrick

James Zhengshe Liu

David Conrad Neumann

Nicholas Ryan Konkle

Kenneth Scott Kump

William Andrew Hennessy

Paul Richard Granfors

Jeffrey Alan Kautzer

Donald E Castleberry

Biju Jacob

Rowland F Saunders

Donald Fayette Langler

Michael John Utschig

Robert F Kwasnick

Douglas Albagli

Brian David Yanoff

Jianjun Guo

Ping Xue

John Robert Lamberty

Jason Robert Ertel

Jibril Odogba

Jeffery Jon Shaw

Ken Scott Kump

Virendra Vilas Gaikwad

Aaron A Haen

George E Possin

Chen Zhang

Clifford Bueno

Clarence Lavere Gordon, Iii

Mahadevan Balasubramaniam

Shashishekara Sitharamarao Talya

Richard Gordon Cronce

Lawrence Elwood Murphy

Douglas I Perry

Brian Joseph Graves

Bruce Courtney Campbell Amm

Alan Dean Blomeyer

Mahesh Raman Narayanaswamy

Jie Jiang

Farshid Farrokhnia

Faisal Saeed

Ajit Achuthan

Jingyi Liang

Le Yan

Zhimin Sun

Shailendra Pramod Joshi

Swami Narasimhan

Lance Gregory

Rowland Frederick Saunders

George Edward Possin

Robert Forrest Kwasnick

A detector assembly positionable to receive X-rays from an X-ray source within an imaging system is provided. The detector assembly includes multiple detector elements. The detector assembly also includes a temperature regulation system including multiple temperature regulation devices, wherein each temperature regulation device of the multiple temperature regulation devices is associated with a respective detector element of the multiple detector elements, and each temperature regulation device is configured to independently maintain a consistent temperature across a portion of a respective detector element.

System and method for regulating temperature of imaging detector sensors

An imager panel for an x-ray detector for obtaining x-ray images of an object is provided that includes a first portion disposed at the center of the hybrid imager panel that can produce images of a first resolution and a second portion disposed at least partially around the first portion that is capable of producing images of a second resolution. The hybrid imager panel provides a hybrid detector that can be selectively operated to obtain images of varying resolutions corresponding to the first resolution from the first portion, the second resolution from the second portion or a combination thereof.

Hybrid X-ray detector structure

Various approaches are discussed for using four-side buttable CMOS tiles to fabricate detector panels, including large-area detector panels. Fabrication may utilize pads and interconnect structures formed on the top or bottom of the CMOS tiles. Electrical connection and readout may utilize readout and digitization circuitry provided on the CMOS tiles themselves such that readout of groups or sub-arrays of pixels occurs at the tile level, while tiles are then readout at the detector level such that readout operations are tiered or multi-level.

Radiation detector assembly

An x-ray image detector includes a light image sensor having a depth, a front side comprising a sensing surface, and a back side. The x-ray image detector further includes a substrate plate on the back side and surrounding the depth of the light image sensor such that the substrate plate forms a lip around the light image sensor. The lip is level with the front side of the light image sensor. The x-ray image detector further includes a scintillator over the sensing surface of the light image sensor and at least a portion of the lip.

X-ray detector with directly applied scintillator

Fabrication and use of an X-ray detector scan interface having separate enable and reset lines for each line (e.g., row) of pixels is described. In certain implementations, the respective enable and reset lines are connected such that activation of an enable line for a given line of pixels is concurrent with activation of a reset line for a different (e.g., preceding) row of pixels. In this manner, readout of one row of pixels is performed in conjunction with resetting the row of pixels readout in the preceding operation. In another technical implementation, a non-rectangular detector is divided into quadrants, with alternating quadrants configured for scan module or data module operations such that no quadrant has overlapping scan and data interconnections at the connection finger regions.

Active pixel radiation detector array and use thereof

An X-ray detector panel includes a plurality of photodetector wafers are arranged in a photodetector array. Each photodetector wafer comprises a sensing surface, a contact surface disposed opposite the sensing surface, and an electrical contact coupled to the contact surface. A substrate is coupled to the photodetector array such that the photodetector array is substantially surrounded by the substrate and a face surface of the substrate is substantially coplanar with the sensing surface. A scintillator is coupled to the face surface of the substrate and substantially covers the sensing surfaces of the photodetector array. A scintillator cover is substantially sealingly coupled to the face surface.

X-ray detector panel

A charging station for a portable X-ray detector is described. In one embodiment, the charging station includes one or more biasing members that act to guide and align a portable detector when inserted into the charging station. In certain embodiments, a physical, pin-type connector for connecting to an inserted portable detector is present, while in other embodiments no pin-type connector is present.

Charging station for portable X-ray detectors

A digital X-ray detector includes a multi-functional panel support configured to support a digital detector array on a first side of the panel support and electronics on a second side of the panel support. The panel support includes a first enclosure and a rechargeable battery disposed within the first enclosure.

Digital X-ray detector with a multi-functional panel support

A portable x-ray detector is disclosed that includes an x-ray detecting member and a user removable electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding member. The user removable EMI shielding member is positioned to at least partially magnetically shield the x-ray detecting member of the portable x-ray detector by redirecting an impinging magnetic field around the x-ray detecting member. The user removable EMI shielding member includes a first magnetic shielding layer, a second magnetic shielding layer, and an intervening material, other than the x-ray detecting member, between the first magnetic shielding layer and the second magnetic shielding layer.

Energy detector and related apparatus

In one embodiment, a portable X-ray detector assembly is provided comprising a detector array and a housing for the detector array. The housing is provided as a multi-layer structure in which at least one layer improves or increases the structural integrity of other layers of the housing. In certain embodiments, the structural integrity layer also acts to reduce or eliminate electromagnetic interference that might otherwise affect the detector or other electronics in the vicinity of the detector.

Ruggedized enclosure for a radiographic device

Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a docking detector receptacle includes apparatus to cool a portable digital X-ray detector. In addition, systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations communication authorization is established between a portable digital X-ray detector and a docking detector receptacle, and communication is performed between the portable digital X-ray detector and the docking detector receptacle using the authorization. In addition, systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations a portable digital X-ray detector includes a panel, isolation at least three isolation foam layers, a motherboard and a carbon fiber layer.

Multi-purpose docking apparatus of digital X-ray detector

A method includes purposefully electromagnetically shielding a portable x-ray detector.

A digital radiography imaging system having a digital x-ray detector that is easy to manufacture and produces high quality images with no artifacts. The digital x-ray detector including a front cover, a scintillator screen member, a light imager panel member having a surface in direct contact with an adjoining surface of the scintillator screen member, a compressible member positioned between the front cover and the scintillator screen member to apply pressure to the scintillator screen member and the adjoining surface between the scintillator screen member and the light imager panel member, electronic circuitry mounted on at least one printed circuit board and coupled to the light imager panel, a back cover, and a plurality of fasteners for fastening the front cover to the back cover.

Digital x-ray detector assembly

An imaging system is provided having an EMI shield configured to shield one or more imaging components. The EMI shield includes a first material having a first plurality of conductive elements integrally formed within a first nonconductive material and also includes a generally nonconductive exterior. A method is provided for shielding EMI in an imaging system. The method includes providing an EMI shielding enclosure that includes a first material having a first plurality of conductive elements disposed in a first non-conductive material, and a second material having a second plurality of conductive elements disposed in a second non-conductive material, wherein the first plurality of conductive elements engages the second plurality of conductive elements to form a conduction path. Another method for shielding EMI in an imaging system is provided, that includes providing an EMI shielding enclosure having a first material that has a non-conductive surface and a second EMI shielding material disposed on the non-conductive surface of the first material.

EMI shielding of digital x-ray detectors with non-metallic enclosures

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