Patent ID: 8835862

Claim:
A radiation image photographing apparatus, comprising: a detecting section made of a single glass substrate and including a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines which are arranged to cross each other, and a plurality of radiation detecting elements which are arranged in a two dimensional form in respective regions divided by the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of signal lines; a bias source which applies a bias voltage onto the radiation detecting elements via bias lines; a scan driving section to switch over between ON voltage and OFF voltage on the scanning lines so as to switch over between ON voltage and OFF voltage to be applied to respective switch sections of the radiation detecting elements; a read-out circuit to read out image data by converting charge discharged from the radiation detecting elements to the signal lines via the switch sections into the image data; and a control section to control at least the scan driving section and the read-out circuit so as to conduct read-out processing of the image data; wherein the bias lines are connected to the radiation detecting elements arranged in the detecting section with a ratio of one bias line to the radiation detecting elements arranged on one column in an extension direction of the signal line, the bias lines include 1000 or more bias lines, and a predetermined number of bias lines being less than 1000 is connected to one of a plurality of connection lines, wherein the bias voltage is applied from the bias source to the connection lines so that the bias voltage is applied to the radiation detecting elements via the bias lines connected to the connection lines, and wherein the predetermined number of bias lines is set to a number of bias lines which ensures that a temporarily-rising bias voltage returns to an original bias voltage before an ON voltage applied to the scanning line is switched to an OFF voltage.