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

Claim 0:
1. An x-ray imaging system comprising:
a gantry configured rotate about a pivot axis;
an x-ray source coupled to the gantry and configured to emit x-rays along a path extending to define an axial axis; and
an x-ray detector system coupled to the gantry and configured to receive x-rays traveling from the x-ray source along the path, wherein the x-ray detector system includes:
an energy-integrating x-ray detector having an array of energy-integrating x-ray sensors that are configured to sense x-rays emitted from the x-ray source;
a photon-counting detector having another array of photon-counting x-ray sensors configured to determine an interaction between individual x-ray photons from the x-ray source and individual photon-counting x-ray sensors;
wherein both the energy-integrating detector and the photon-counting detector are configured to receive the x-rays emitted from the x-ray source 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.