Patent ID: 7834323
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G01T,H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A radiation imaging device, having m×n (m being an integer no less than 2 and n being an integer no less than 1) radiation imaging elements arrayed on a base, each radiation imaging element being formed by depositing a scintillator on a photodetecting surface of a solid-state imaging element, the solid-state imaging element having a photodetecting portion formed by arraying pixels in two dimensions, the scintillator emitting light including light of a wavelength to which the solid-state imaging element has sensitivity upon incidence of radiation, the scintillator covered with a protective film, wherein with any two adjacently positioned radiation imaging elements, a surface fixed to the base of one of the radiation imaging elements protrudes more in a radiation incident direction than a radiation incident surface of the other radiation imaging element, wherein the two radiation imaging elements are juxtaposed to each other in a state such that the photodetecting portion of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back as viewed from the radiation incident direction is not blocked by the radiation imaging element positioned at the front, wherein the photodetecting portion of the radiation imaging element positioned at the front as viewed from the radiation incident direction spreads to an edge at the side of the other radiation imaging element and has the scintillator formed at substantially the same thickness from a central portion of the photodetecting portion to the edge, and wherein with the any two adjacently positioned radiation imaging elements, an end of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back as viewed from the radiation incident direction is blocked by the radiation of the element positioned at the front, each of the scintillator and photodetecting portion of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back as viewed from the radiation incident direction has an outwardly extending end most closely located toward the blocked end of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back, and the outwardly extending end of the scintillator of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back is located more closely to the blocked end of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back than is the outwardly extending end of the photodetecting portion of the radiation imaging element positioned at the back, and wherein the solid-state imaging element is a MOS type image sensor formed on a semiconductor substrate.