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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2023
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Douglas Albagli, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William Hennessy, Schenectady, NY (US);
Robert Gallup, Wilton, NY (US);
Benjamin Backes, Latham, NY (US);
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
The image quality and useful life of an x-ray imaging detector is enhanced by adding a shield layer between the photodiode/thin film transistor (TFT) array and the cesium iodide (CsI)-based scintillator/scintillator layer. The shield layer prevents dynamic charge coupling between a CsI/parylene layer located above the shield layer and the conductive data transfer lines located below the shield layer and operably connected to the individual pixels of the photodiode/TFT array to effectively maintain the level of various image quality parameters over time, including the modulation transfer function (MTF), and the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).