X-ray detector

US6661012B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV · NL

Inventors

• Olaf Such · Aachen, DE
• Francisco Morales Serrano · Eindhoven, NL
• Stefan Schneider · Aachen, DE
• Herfried Karl Wieczorek · Aachen, DE
• Josef Lauter · Geilenkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 9, 2003
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01T1/1644
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An X-ray detector that includes a sensor matrix and a scintillator arrangement and in which wire elements are spaced apart in layers A and B in order to reduce the crosstalk in neighboring detector elements. Scintillators are inserted at least partly in the grid openings formed.