X-ray detector system design

US11054532B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Prismatic Sensors AB · SE
• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Torbjörn Hjärn · Vaxholm, SE
• Brian David Yanoff · Niskayuna, US
• Brian Breuer · Allenton, US
• Brian Graves · Waukesha, US
• Cheng Xu · Irving, US
• Biju Jacob · Niskayuna, US
• Peter Michael Edic · Albany, US
• Gregory Scott Zeman · Waukesha, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 19, 2019
• Grant date: Jul 6, 2021
• Expiry date: May 4, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01T1/247
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is provided an x-ray detector having a number of x-ray detector sub-modules. Each detector sub-module is an edge-on detector sub-module having an array of detector elements extending in at least two directions, wherein one of the directions has a component in the direction of incoming x-rays. The detector sub-modules are stacked one after the other and/or arranged side-by-side. For at least part of the detector sub-modules, the detector sub-modules are arranged for providing a gap between adjacent detector sub-modules, where at least part of the gap is not directed linearly towards the x-ray focal point of an x-ray source.