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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
Clinton L. Lingren, San Diego, CA (US);
Stanley J. Friesenhahn, Poway, CA (US);
Jack F. Butler, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);
F. Patrick Doty, San Diego, CA (US);
William L. Ashburn, La Jolla, CA (US);
Frank L. Augustine, Encinitas, CA (US);
Boris Apotovsky, San Diego, CA (US);
Digirad Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A high-energy photon imaging system including an imaging head, a signal processor, a data acquisition system and an image processing computer. The imaging head includes a detector including a plurality of closely-packed detection modules. Each detection module includes a plurality of detection elements mounted to a circuit carrier. The detection elements produce electrical pulses having amplitudes indicative of the magnitude of radiation absorbed by the detection elements.