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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2012
Chang Lyong Kim, Brookfield, WI (US);
David Leo Mcdaniel, Dousman, WI (US);
James Lindgren Malaney, Brookfield, WI (US);
William Todd Peterson, Sussex, WI (US);
Gary V. Mcbroom, Dousman, WI (US);
Chang Lyong Kim, Brookfield, WI (US);
David Leo McDaniel, Dousman, WI (US);
James Lindgren Malaney, Brookfield, WI (US);
William Todd Peterson, Sussex, WI (US);
Gary V. McBroom, Dousman, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for signal communication in gamma ray detectors are provided. One gamma ray detector includes a scintillator block having a plurality of scintillator crystals and a plurality of light sensors coupled to the scintillator crystals and having a plurality of microcells. Each of the plurality of light sensors has a first set of signal traces connected to the microcells and a second set of signal traces connected along the first set of signal traces and together forming a signal path to a summing signal trace. Each of the plurality of light sensors also has a pin-out connected to the summing signal trace.