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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2012
Applicants:
Alexander Schwarzman, Haifa, IL;
Naor Wainer, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Amir Livne, Zichron Ya'aqov, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/24 (2013.01); G01T 1/244 (2013.01);
Abstract
A detector array () includes a detector () configured to detect ionizing radiation and output a signal indicative of the detected radiation, wherein the detector at least includes a semiconductor element () and an illumination subsystem () configured to generate and transfer sub-band-gap illuminating radiation to selectively illuminate only a sub-portion of the semiconductor element in order to produce a spatially patterned illumination distribution inside the element.