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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2020
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Biju Jacob, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Douglas Albagli, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William Robert Ross, Kinderhook, NY (US);
William Andrew Hennessy, Troy, NY (US);
Eric Patrick Davis, Wynantskill, NY (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Nicholas Ryan Konkle, Sussex, WI (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to the use of X-ray detector cassettes that may be abutted or overlapped to form a detector assembly suitable for imaging objects that are too large to image using a single X-ray detector cassette. Such a detector assembly may be customized in terms of the size and/or shape of the field-of-view (FOV). In certain embodiments the radiation-sensitive electronics (e.g., readout electronics) are positioned to the side of the X-ray detecting components (e.g., scintillator, TFT array, and so forth), allowing the cassette to be thin relative to other detector devices and allowing the electronics to remain outside the X-ray beam path.