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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1998
Robert E. Melen, Saratoga, CA (US);
David A. Pearson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joseph A. Heanue, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Stephen L. Shapiro, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Eugene L. Atlas, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Cardiac Mariners, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
An x-ray detector, useful in x-ray imaging systems constructed from a single piece of silicon and a photon sensing crystal, and comprises a plurality of detector elements, each of the plurality of detector elements comprising a plurality of detector sub-elements. A plurality of x-ray detectors are arranged in a multi-dimensional array, each array of detectors tiered with respect to the next array of detectors. A compact electronics circuitry is also provided. The compact electronics circuitry is contained in each of the plurality of detector sub-elements. The compact electronics circuitry comprises a photon sensor, an amplifier, a discriminator and a digital-to-analog converter. Finally, a method for generating x-ray transmissiveness information is also provided.