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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2016
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Yannan Jin, Schenectady, NY (US);
Geng Fu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Brian David Yanoff, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jianjun Guo, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/20 (2006.01); G01T 1/24 (2006.01); G01T 1/17 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/2006 (2013.01); G01T 1/17 (2013.01); G01T 1/2018 (2013.01); G01T 1/247 (2013.01);
Abstract
A detector is described having readout electronics integrated in the photodetector layer. The detector may be configured to acquire both energy-integrated and photon-counting data. In one implementation, the detector is also configured with control logic to select between the jointly generated photon-counting and energy-integrated data.