Patent ID: 8890081

Claim:
A continuous imaging system, comprising in combination: a plurality of pairs of photodiodes and scintillator pixels arranged such that visible light from each scintillator of said plurality of scintillator pixels is incident on a corresponding photodiode in said plurality of photodiodes; a plurality of amplifiers, each amplifier of said plurality of amplifiers being dedicated to one photodiode of said plurality of photodiodes for amplifying the electrical signal generated thereby; a plurality of multiplexed analog-to-digital converters, each analog-to-digital converter of said plurality of analog-to-digital converters receiving the amplified electrical signal from at least one amplifier of said plurality of amplifiers, and generating a voltage output therefrom; for each of the plurality of multiplexed analog-to-digital converters, at least one first-in-first-out memory buffer for receiving and storing the voltage output from each analog-to-digital converter in a parallel manner; an output bus in electrical connection with said memory buffer for receiving stored voltages from said at least one memory buffer; and a memory readout for sampling said output bus and for generating an image from the voltages thereof.