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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard J. Ruzga, Mukwonago, WI (US);
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/20 ;
Abstract
An Radiation detector employs one or more arrays of microphotonic light transmission devices to selectively control the flow of light from different detection sites in a scintillator into an optical conduit. For example the microphotonic light transmission devices may be microelectromechanical steerable mirrors or light gates. Instead of employing a separate detector element to convert the light from each site into an electrical signal that is then switched into a data acquisition system, the present detector assembly switches the light into the optical conduit to the data acquisition system.