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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2013
Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Douglas Q. Abraham, Topsfield, MA (US);
Basak Ulker Karbeyaz, Concord, MA (US);
ANALOGIC CORPORATION, Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are described for resetting an integration circuit () of a detector cell or an electronics arrangement () thereof. When a voltage signal output by the integration circuit () exceeds a specified threshold (e.g., indicating that a specified number of radiation photons have been detected), a charge injection circuit () is configured to inject charge into the integration circuit (). The injected charge is typically opposite in polarity to stored charge that is stored by a capacitor () of the integration circuit () and is configured to counteract the stored charge. In this way, a voltage potential at the capacitor () decreases, causing the voltage signal output by the integration circuit () to decrease. Moreover, a number of resets per measurement interval may be recorded to determine an average current output by a radiation detection element of the detector cell over the measurement interval to facilitate acquiring photon integration readings.