Patent ID: 9318518
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: A61B,G01T,H01L,H04N,H05G

Claim Text:
1. An imaging system, comprising: a radiation source that emits x-ray radiation that traverses an examination region; a detector array with a plurality of photon counting detector pixels that detect x-ray radiation traversing the examination region and respectively generate a signal indicative of the detected x-ray radiation, a photon counting detector pixel, comprising: a substrate having at least two bonding pads, one for each of the at least two sub-anodes, wherein each of the at least two bonding pads is physically and electrically coupled to a different one of the at least two sub-anodes; processing electronics; switching electronics configured to alternatively electrically couple only a single one of the at least two bonding pads to the processing electronics; and a reconstructor that reconstructs the signal to generate volumetric image data indicative of the examination region.