X-ray detector with a voltage source device for generating a pulsed potential difference

US10330800B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

• Shameem Kabir Chaudhury · Erlangen, DE
• Alfons Eismann · Pinzberg, DE
• Thorsten ERGLER · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Hilderscheid · Altdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 25, 2019
• Expiry date: Mar 7, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01T1/249
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An X-ray detector includes a direct-conversion converter element and an evaluating unit in a stacked arrangement. In an embodiment, the X-ray detector includes a voltage source, configured to provide a first potential and a second potential different from the first potential; a pulse generating unit for generating voltage pulses; and a connecting unit, for applying the voltage pulses onto the first potential, configured at the output to provide a pulsed potential. In an embodiment, through the application of the pulsed potential to a first surface of the direct-conversion converter element and through the application of the second potential to a second surface of the converter element opposed to the first surface, a pulsed potential difference is formed in the direct-conversion converter element.