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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2007
Yanfeng Du, Rexford, NY (US);
J. Eric Tkaczyk, Delanson, NY (US);
David M. Hoffman, New Berlin, WI (US);
Yanfeng Du, Rexford, NY (US);
J. Eric Tkaczyk, Delanson, NY (US);
David M. Hoffman, New Berlin, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A diagnostic imaging system includes a high frequency electromagnetic energy source that emits a beam of high frequency electromagnetic energy toward an object to be imaged. An energy discriminating (ED) detector receives high frequency electromagnetic energy emitted by the high frequency electromagnetic energy source. The ED detector includes a direct conversion layer dynamically operable in a photon counting mode in one view and in an integrating mode in another view and an indirect conversion layer. A data acquisition system (DAS) is operably connected to the ED detector and a computer operably connected to the DAS.