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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2007
George E. Possin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Kent C. Burr, Latham, NY (US);
Aaron J. Couture, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Short, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
George E. Possin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Kent C. Burr, Latham, NY (US);
Aaron J. Couture, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jonathan D. Short, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes a gantry having a bore therethrough designed to receive a patient being translated through the bore an x-ray source disposed in the gantry and configured to emit x-rays toward the patient, and a detector module disposed in the gantry to receive x-rays attenuated by the patient. The detector module includes a scintillator configured to absorb the x-rays and to convert the x-rays into optical photons, a device configured to receive the optical photons and to convert the optical photons to electrical signals, and an adaptive data acquisition system (DAS) configured to switch an operating mode of the device from a charge integrating mode to a photon counting mode, and vice versa.