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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1995
John D Cox, Gainesville, FL (US);
Donald W Williams, High Springs, FL (US);
General Imaging Corporation, Alachua, FL (US);
Abstract
An x-ray detector includes a scintillator, a sensor array, processing circuits, and a ceramic layer. The ceramic layer overlays the processing circuits. The pixel architecture of the detector utilizes a technique similar to a CCD array to shift data from the array. The detector preferably utilizes 4-side abuttable sensor arrays having imbedded shift registers and bond pads superimposed over the pixel array in the upper metallization layers of the sensor. An alternative embodiment incorporates a silicon-on-insulator substrate to produce a monolithic large area substrate and a contiguous uninterrupted pixel array over the entire imaging surface.