Method for detecting x-rays and x-ray detector performing the method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDong-Cheol KIM, Dae-Ho CHOO, Sang-Wook AHN, Yeon-Hee YU
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Abstract
A method for detecting X-rays using an X-ray detector including an X-ray detecting part includes disposing a heat-circulating part adjacent to the X-ray detecting part. The X-ray detecting part includes light-detecting diodes. The method further includes detecting ambient temperatures of the light detecting diodes, circulating heat in the heat-circulating part based upon a result of the detecting the ambient temperatures of the light detecting diodes, increasing a uniformity of the ambient temperatures of the light-detecting diodes, and detecting X-rays irradiated into the X-ray detector.
Claims20
A method for detecting X-rays comprising:
- increasing a uniformity of ambient temperatures of light-detecting diodes in an X-ray detector by adjusting a temperature of a heat transfer material in heat-circulating pipes disposed along substantially an entire surface of a heat-circulating plate;
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- detecting X-rays irradiated into the X-ray detector.
An X-ray detector comprising:
- an X-ray detecting part comprising a plurality of light-detecting diodes;
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- a heat-circulating part disposed adjacent to the X-ray detecting part, the heat-circulating part comprising:
- a heat-circulating plate;
- a plurality of heat-circulating pipes disposed covering substantially the entire surface of the heat-circulating plate;
- wherein the heat-circulating part circulates heat to increase a uniformity of ambient temperatures of the light-detecting diodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.