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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2022
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Ke Li, Madison, WI (US);
Guang-Hong Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); G01T 1/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for a hybrid detector for a computed tomography (CT) system are provided that include a semiconductor detector arranged to generate photon-counting CT data upon receiving x-rays and a scintillator detector arranged proximate to the semiconductor detector to receive scattered x-rays and generate energy-integrating CT data upon receiving the scattered x-rays.