A system (10) and a method (100) compensate for one or more dead pixels in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. A pixel compensation processor receives PET data describing a target volume of a subject. The PET data is missing data for one or more dead pixels. The pixel compensation estimates PET data for the dead pixels from the received PET data.

A radiation detection system comprises a scintillator for converting radiation to visible light; two buttable CMOS wafers; an adjacent acquisition board, for acquiring pixel values; and a processing board for detecting image edge is described. The butt of each adjacent CMOS wafers pair is made such that the total width of two peripheral pixel lines and the spacing between them sums to a whole number of pixel pitch.

Disclosed in the present invention are an X-ray detector based on energy integrating and photon counting hybrid imaging, and a CT machine. The X-ray detector comprises: a counting detector, having at least one column of pixelated electronic elements; and an integrating detector, stacked on one side of the counting detector in a first direction and having at least one column of pixelated photoelectric elements. The counting detector and the integrating detector share one ray conversion part, and the ray conversion part is capable of receiving X-rays and converting the X-rays into electron hole pairs so as to transmit the electron hole pairs to the electronic elements; the ray conversion part is also capable of receiving X-rays and converting the X-rays into visible light photons so as to transmit the visible light photons to the photoelectric elements.

A sensor board comprising a substrate comprising a pixel region where pixels are arranged on a first surface of two surfaces, a scintillator arranged on one of the first surface and a second surface of the two surfaces and a light shielding member arranged on the surface on which the scintillator is arranged, is provided. The pixel region comprises a first region where a signal for radiation image is generated and a second region where a signal for correcting a signal output from the first region is generated. The scintillator is arranged to overlap the first region but not to overlap the second region. The light shielding member is arranged to cover the scintillator and overlap the second region. A portion of the light shielding member overlapping the second region is bonded to the surface on which the scintillator is arranged.

The present invention provides an X-ray detector comprising: a sensor panel which has flexibility; at least one first flexible circuit unit which is attached along a first edge of the sensor panel and has a gate IC mounted therein; at least one second flexible circuit unit which is attached along a second edge of the sensor panel and has a readout IC mounted therein; a third flexible circuit unit which is attached to one end of the first edge; and a main circuit unit which is connected to the third flexible circuit unit and has a timing controller mounted thereon, wherein a gate control signal output from the main circuit unit is provided to the gate IC via the third flexible circuit unit.

A method of manufacturing a radiographic imaging apparatus includes providing a flexible base material on a support body and forming a sensor substrate in which a plurality of pixels for accumulating electric charges generated depending on light converted from radiation is provided; forming a conversion layer that converts the radiation into light on a fixing plate; providing the conversion layer in a state in which a surface of the conversion layer opposite to the fixing plate is made to face a first surface of the base material provided with the pixels; fixing one end of the flexible cable to the sensor substrate; fixing the flexible cable to the fixing plate; and peeling the sensor substrate provided with the conversion layer and the fixing plate from the support body.

An X-ray detector includes a network chip, a power supply and a sensing circuit; the sensing circuit includes a power-supply managing chip, and the power-supply managing chip is electrically connected to the network chip and the power supply; the power supply is configured for supplying electric power to the network chip and the power-supply managing chip of the sensing circuit; the power-supply managing chip is configured for, when turned on, supplying electric power to the sensing circuit; the sensing circuit is configured for, when receiving a sleeping instruction sent by an external device or is not in an operating state, turning off the power-supply managing chip, to enter a sleeping state; and the network chip is configured for, when receiving an operation instruction sent by the external device, controlling the power-supply managing chip to be turned on, whereby the sensing circuit exits the sleeping state.

A radiation sensor including a scintillation layer configured to emit photons upon interaction with ionizing radiation and a photodetector including in order a first electrode, a photosensitive layer, and a photon-transmissive second electrode disposed in proximity to the scintillation layer. The photosensitive layer is configured to generate electron-hole pairs upon interaction with a part of the photons. The radiation sensor includes pixel circuitry electrically connected to the first electrode and configured to measure an imaging signal indicative of the electron-hole pairs generated in the photosensitive layer and a planarization layer disposed on the pixel circuitry between the first electrode and the pixel circuitry such that the first electrode is above a plane including the pixel circuitry. A surface of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode at least partially overlaps the pixel circuitry and has a surface inflection above features of the pixel circuitry. The surface inflection has a radius of curvature greater than one half micron.

To provide a semiconductor device and a driving method of the same that is capable of enlarging a signal amplitude value as well as increasing a range in which a linear input/output relationship operates while preventing a signal writing-in time from becoming long. The semiconductor device having an amplifying transistor and a biasing transistor and the driving method thereof, wherein an electric discharging transistor is provided and pre-discharge is performed.

An image acquisition device is an image acquisition device that acquires an X-ray transmission image of an object conveyed in a conveyance direction, and the image acquisition device includes an X-ray irradiator that outputs an X-ray, a belt conveyor that conveys the object in the conveyance direction, an X-ray detection camera having a scintillator that converts an X-ray penetrating the object into scintillation light, a line scan camera that detects the scintillation light and outputs a detection signal, and an amplifier that amplifies the detection signal at a predetermined set amplification factor and outputs a amplified signal, a controller that generates an X-ray transmission image based on the amplified signal, and an amplifier controller that sets one of a first amplification factor or a second amplification factor corresponding to an amplification factor lower than the first amplification factor as the set amplification factor based on a predetermined imaging condition.