X-ray mammography apparatus having a solid-state radiation detector
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMartin Hoheisel, Juergen Kirsch, Hartmut Sklebitz, Martin Spahn
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Abstract
An X-ray mammography device has an X-ray tube arrangement, a compression mechanism, a subject table, and a large-area solid-state detector made of amorphous silicon (a-Si) which is integrated in a detector cassette that can be inserted into the subject table and that has a first part of at least one transmission path for supplying the operating voltage, and/or the control signals for operating the solid-state detector and/or the readout data, this first said part engaging functionally with a corresponding second part of the transmission path which is attached at the subject table.
Claims13
An X-ray mammography apparatus comprising:
- an X-ray tube which emits an X-ray beam;
- a subject table with a compression arrangement adapted for compressing an examination subject on said subject table in said X-ray beam;
- a radiation detector cassette insertable into said subject table, said radiation detector cassette having a large-area solid-state amorphous silicon radiation detector integrated therein, and said detector cassette having a first part of at least one transmission path, said transmission path being selected from the group of transmission paths comprising a transmission path for supplying operating voltage to said solid-state detector, a transmission path for supplying control signals to said solid-state detector for operating said solid-state detector, and a transmission path for reading out data from said solid-state detector;
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- said subject table having a second part of said transmission path which engages said first part of said transmission path when said detector cassette is inserted into said subject table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.