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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2008
Kent Charles Burr, Mayfield, OH (US);
Joseph John Shiang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Aaron Judy Couture, Schenectady, NY (US);
Kent Charles Burr, Mayfield, OH (US);
Joseph John Shiang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Aaron Judy Couture, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A technique is provided for forming a multi-layer radiation detector. The technique includes a charge-integrating photodetector layer provided in conjunction with a photon-counting photodetector layer. In one embodiment, a plurality of photon-counting photosensor elements are disposed adjacent to a plurality of charge-integrating photosensor elements of the respective layers. Both sets of elements are connected to readout circuitry and a data acquisition system. The detector arrangement may be used for energy discriminating computed tomography imaging and similar computed tomography systems.