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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tumay O Tumer, Riverside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nova R & D, Inc., Riverside, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378 989 ; 378 9811 ;
Abstract
A CdZnTe solid state detector application specific integrated circuit is used for detection of radiation. The chip and circuitry is under control of a main computer which provides control signals to a solid state detector chip module which provides threshold level and count information to the computer for processing into an image. The processed image may be a tomographic image and/or a multispectral image wherein image colors represent different energy bands of received x-rays. The information used from different energy band images is used to identify different materials contained in an object being scanned.