Detector module for an X-ray detector having a heating layer
AssigneeSiemens Healthineers AG
InventorsMichael Hosemann, Andrea Zang
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Abstract
One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a detector module for an X-ray detector comprising a sensor layer in a stacked construction configured to convert incident X-ray radiation into electrical signals; a readout layer configured to read out the electrical signals from the sensor layer; and a heating layer, the heating layer including a plurality of heating elements spatially distributed in the heating layer and configured separately from one another for heating the sensor layer, and wherein the readout layer has for each heating element an associated activatable adapting unit via which each heating element is contacted for feeding in power and which is configured to adapt the power fed to each heating element.
Claims12
A detector module for an X-ray detector comprising, in a stacked construction:
- a sensor layer configured to convert incident X-ray radiation into electrical signals;
- a readout layer configured to read out the electrical signals from the sensor layer;
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- a heating layer, the heating layer including a plurality of heating elements spatially distributed in the heating layer and configured separately from one another for heating the sensor layer, the heating layer being subdivided into a plurality of partial heating regions, each partial heating region having at least one heating element being a heating resistor,
- wherein the readout layer has for each heating element an associated activatable adapting unit via which the respective heating element is contacted for feeding in power and which is configured to adapt the power fed to the respective heating element, the associated activatable adapting unit being an associated connecting unit configured to connect the respective heating element in a manner able to be switched at least either to a first power supply unit or to a second power supply unit,
- a first feed line from the at least one first power supply unit and one second feed line from the at least one second power supply unit is included by the heating layer, and
- for each partial heating region of the heating layer, contacts are provided on the first feed line and the second feed line enabling a contacting of the first feed line and the second feed line to the associated connecting unit in the readout layer.
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