Patent ID: 11857355
Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 13:
14. An x-ray detector system comprising:
an energy-integrating x-ray detector having an array of energy-integrating x-ray sensors that are configured to sense x-rays emitted from an x-ray source and generate energy-integrating x-ray data;
a photon-counting detector having another array of photon-counting x-ray sensors configured to determine an interaction between individual x-ray photons with individual photon-counting x-ray sensors to generate photon-counting x-ray data;
electronics configured to receive the energy-integrating x-ray data and the photon-counting x-ray data simultaneously; and
wherein the energy-integrating x-ray sensors define a first shape and the photon-counting x-ray sensors define a second shape, wherein the first shape is a first rectangle having a space formed therein to receive the second shape, wherein the second shape is an elongated strip intersecting a second rectangle, wherein a width of the second rectangle is greater than a width of the elongated strip and a length of the second rectangle is smaller than a length of the elongated strip.