Radiation Detecting Pixel Array Signal Routing
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsYanfeng Du, Naresh Kesavan Rao
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Abstract
An embodiment of the invention includes a radiation detecting pixel array. The radiation detecting pixel array includes a substrate, a plurality of radiation detecting pixels arranged in a grid pattern on the substrate, a signal routing array embedded within the substrate in operative communication with the plurality of radiation detecting pixels, and at least two symmetrical communication channels arranged on each of two sides of the grid pattern. The signal routing array is formed of communication channels configured to provide operative communication between any of the plurality of radiation detecting pixels and each of the at least two symmetrical communication channels.
Claims19
A pixellated radiation detector module, comprising:
- a package or module substrate;
- a pixellated radiation detector on the substrate;
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- a readout ASIC in communication with the pixellated radiation detector;
- wherein, a symmetrical signal routing array is embedded within the substrate to connect each pixel of the pixellated radiation detector to one readout channel within the readout ASIC, and
- the readout channels in the ASIC are divided into at least two symmetrical groups, the signal routing array is formed of communication channels configured to connect neighboring pixels of the plurality of radiation detector pixels to a different group of the at least two symmetrical readout channels.
A radiation detecting apparatus, comprising:
- a radiation detecting pixel array;
- a radiation detector module in operative communication with the radiation detecting pixel array through at least two symmetrical communication channels;
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- an output device in operative communication with the radiation detector module;
- wherein:
- the at least two symmetrical communications channels are arranged on each of two sides of the radiation detecting pixel array;
- and
- the at least two symmetrical communication channels are configured to provide anode pixel signals from any pixel of the radiation detecting pixel array to the radiation detector module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.