A radiation imaging apparatus has a sensor that converts irradiated radiation into a charge in accordance with a radiation dose, a switching power supply for supplying power to at least the sensor, and a readout unit that reads out a signal corresponding to the charge from the sensor. The radiation imaging apparatus synchronizes the imaging synchronization signal and a control clock for a switching operation of the switching power supply, causes a readout of signal from the sensor by the readout unit to be executed, and adjusts the phase of the control clock in each cycle of the imaging synchronization signal so that a timing of the imaging synchronization signal that occurs cyclically is at the same phase of the control clock.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for processing signals of a semiconductor detector, including: acquiring a relationship of a time difference between anode and cathode signals of the semiconductor detector with an anode signal amplitude; obtaining an optimal data screening interval according to the relationship of the time difference between anode and cathode signals of the semiconductor detector with the anode signal amplitude, wherein the optimal data screening interval is an interval where the time difference between the anode and cathode signals is greater than 50 ns; and screening and processing the collected data according to the optimal data screening interval when the semiconductor detector collects data. The present invention better overcomes the inherent crystal defects of the detector, reduces the effect of background noise, increases the energy resolution of the cadmium zinc telluride detector under room temperature, and improves the peak-to-compton ratio.

In a method and control unit for activating an X-ray detector, having an X-ray sensitive sensor layer and an arrangement of pixel electrodes connected at the back to the sensor layer, an individually adjusted depletion voltage is applied to each of the pixel electrodes. The value of the depletion voltages applied to different pixel electrodes is chosen to be different such that the effective pixel sizes respectively associated with the pixel electrodes are aligned with each other.

Techniques are provided for x-ray sensing for intraoral tomography. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes detecting an x-ray pulse based on energy received at one or more pixels of a pixel array. The method also includes integrating the energy received at each of the pixels of the array of pixels, in response to the detection, wherein the energy received at each of the pixels is associated with the x-ray pulse. The method further includes multiplexing readouts of analog signals from the array of pixels into two or more parallel channels. The method further includes simultaneously converting (or otherwise in parallel) the analog signals of each of the channels into digital signals and storing the digital signals in memory as frames of data. The method may further include, for example, transmitting the frames of data from the memory, over a Universal Serial Bus, to an imaging system.

A radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a sensor array and a controller, wherein the controller shifts to a non-capturing mode upon receiving an instruction representing a suspension of radiographic imaging, and shifts to a capturing mode upon receiving an instruction representing a start of radiographic imaging, and the controller performs, in the capturing mode, one of movie capturing and continuous capturing in which an operation of driving the sensor array in response to one radiation irradiation for the sensor array and acquiring image data of one frame from the sensor array is repetitively executed, and, in the non-capturing mode, drives the sensor array to suppress lowering of a temperature of the sensor array in the non-capturing mode from the temperature of the sensor array in the capturing mode.

An X-ray detector includes a converter element for converting X-rays into electric signals; and a plurality of pixel elements. In an embodiment, each pixel element includes a first signal processing stage for processing respective electric signals with at least one signal amplifier and at least one comparator for providing a digital pixel signal. The signal outputs of the first signal processing stage of at least one group of pixel elements are coupled via signal technology to a common second signal processing stage including a multiplicity of digital logic elements. The common second signal processing stage includes a configurable switching matrix for interconnecting at least one partial number of the multiplicity of digital logic elements with the respective signal outputs of the first signal processing stage, so that, following a configuration of the switching matrix, a processing chain can be provided for the digital processing of the digital pixel signals.

Provided are a detection substrate and a ray detector. The detection substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of detection pixels located on the base substrate, at least one detection pixel serves as a detection marking pixel. The detection marking pixel includes: a storage capacitor, a first electrode plate of the storage capacitor coupled to a bias voltage end; a discharge circuit configured to write a signal of the bias voltage end into a second electrode plate of the storage capacitor under the control of a first scanning signal end; and a reading circuit coupled to an external reading circuit, the reading circuit configured to write the voltage of the second electrode plate of the storage capacitor into the external reading circuit and write a reference signal of the external reading circuit into the second electrode plate of the storage capacitor under the control of a second scanning signal end.

An X-ray imaging device, including: a transfer substrate including electric connection elements; an array of pixels, each including a monolithic elementary chip bonded and electrically connected to elements of electric connection of the transfer substrate, and a direct conversion X photon detector electrically connected to the elementary chip, wherein, in each pixel, the elementary chip includes an integrated circuit for reading from the detector of the pixel.

A photoelectric detection circuit and a driving method therefor, and a detection substrate and a ray detector. The photoelectric detection circuit includes a storage circuit (101), an amplification circuit (102), a first reading circuit (103) and a second reading circuit (104), where the storage circuit (101), the amplification circuit (102) and the first reading circuit (103) cooperate with one another to realize a photoelectric detection function in an active mode; and the storage circuit (101) and the second reading circuit (104) cooperate with each other to realize a photoelectric detection function in a passive mode.

Provided are a system and method for combining detector signals. In one exemplary embodiment, the system includes the detector, a plurality of ASICs where each ASIC may receive an electric signal from the detector and generate a position signal and an energy signal based on the received electric signal, a combiner that may combine a position signal output from a first ASIC and a position signal output from a second ASIC to generate a combined position signal, and combine an energy signal output from the first ASIC and an energy signal output from the second ASIC to generate a combined energy signal, and an analog-to-digital converter that may receive the combined position signal and the combined energy signal and generate digitized image data for the first ASIC and the second ASIC based thereon.