Provided is a radiography apparatus capable of changing the shape and size at an imaging site. A radiography apparatus (1) includes a scintillator (12), and a substrate (11) that is laminated on the scintillator (12) and has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (17) converting light emitted from the scintillator (12) into electric charges, in which a laminate including the scintillator (12) and the substrate (11) is partitioned into a plurality of blocks (10A) to (10I), and the blocks are separable from each other.

According to an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray tube radiates X-rays. An X-ray collimator adjusts an irradiation region of the X-rays. An X-ray detector includes a first detector and a second detector having a smaller detection area than a detection area of the first detector. The X-ray detector is able to detect the X-rays radiated with the first detector and the second detector at the same time. Processing circuitry generates a synthesized image obtained by synthesizing a first X-ray image generated based on an output from the first detector that detected the X-rays radiated in the irradiation region adjusted, and a second X-ray image generated based on an output from the second detector that detected the X-rays radiated in the irradiation region adjusted, the synthesized image having an image size corresponding to an aspect ratio of the irradiation region. The processing circuitry causes a display to display the synthesized image.

Fabrication and use of an X-ray detector scan interface having separate enable and reset lines for each line (e.g., row) of pixels is described. In certain implementations, the respective enable and reset lines are connected such that activation of an enable line for a given line of pixels is concurrent with activation of a reset line for a different (e.g., preceding) row of pixels. In this manner, readout of one row of pixels is performed in conjunction with resetting the row of pixels readout in the preceding operation. In another technical implementation, a non-rectangular detector is divided into quadrants, with alternating quadrants configured for scan module or data module operations such that no quadrant has overlapping scan and data interconnections at the connection finger regions.

The present invention relates to an X-ray imaging system. The invention further relates to an X-ray sensor to be used in such system and to a method for manufacturing such sensors.

According to the invention, the combination of a lower saturation dose and obtaining a plurality of image frames during a single exposure, can be used to form a final X-ray image having an improved dynamic range.

A borehole muon detector comprises a sensor housed in a housing, the sensor including: a plurality of photodetector elements; at least one printed circuit board in electrical communication with the plurality of photodetectors and including an integrated electronic circuit for tracking time; a first helical bundle of scintillator fibers; and an oppositely wound helical bundle of scintillator fibers. Each scintillator fiber of each bundle is optically connected to a photodetector. The sensor comprises a plurality of scintillator bars, each comprising an optical fiber extending from a first end to a second end, and vertically disposed in the bore defined by the helical bundles of fibers. Each optical fiber of each scintillator bar is optically connected to a photodetector element.

A detector detects at least one neutron. The detector includes at least one thin absorption layer each including an absorption material for absorbing the neutron and then radioactively decaying into energetic byproducts. The detector includes at least one emission layer each including a solid scintillation material for converting the energetic byproducts into photons. The detector includes a sensor for detecting the photons.

To improve a temporal resolution. An image-capturing device includes a pixel array unit and a control unit. The pixel array unit includes a plurality of pixels classified into two or more groups, wherein pixels which belong to a same group are driven at a same timing. The control unit controls driving of the pixel array unit so that a number of groups in a period of time of read-out of electrical charge is a same number in any given timing in image-capturing operation, and that a number of groups in a period of time of exposure and accumulation of electrical charge is a same number in any given timing in the image-capturing operation.

An imaging apparatus 10 includes an imaging panel 11 formed by arranging imaging element units 20 included in one pixel or a plurality of pixels, in a two-dimensional matrix form. Each of the imaging element units 20 includes an imaging element 30 which converts an incident electromagnetic wave to a current, and a current/voltage conversion circuit 40A which converts the current from the imaging element to a voltage.

Noise of signals in an image sensor is reduced. A pixel circuit generates a reset signal of a predetermined initial voltage and an exposure signal of a signal voltage according to an exposure amount of light in order. An analog-digital conversion unit performs a reset sampling process of converting the reset signal into a first digital signal at a predetermined reset sampling interval and an exposure sampling process of converting the exposure signal into a second digital signal at an exposure sampling interval that does not exceed twice the predetermined reset sampling interval in order. A detection unit detects the light based on the first digital signal and a second digital signal.

Detector module designs for radiographic imaging include first and second layers of scintillator rods or pixel arrays oriented in first and second directions. The first and second directions are transversely oriented to define a light sharing region between the first and second layers. Encoding features may be disposed in, on or between the first and second layers, and configured to modulate propagation of optical signals therealong or therebetween.