US 12,259,504 B2
Modular x-ray detectors and systems
Tyler Wilson, Stansbury Park, UT (US); Maxwell J. Allen, Redwood City, CA (US); Steven Freestone, Sandy, UT (US); Carlo Tognina, Salt Lake City, UT (US); Paul Pryor, West Jordan, UT (US); and Christy Patterson, West Jordan, UT (US)
Assigned to VAREX IMAGING CORPORATION, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Appl. No. 17/922,348
Filed by Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/045282
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/055970, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 6, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/250,198, filed on Sep. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0255655 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. G01T 1/17 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/17 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An x-ray detector, comprising:
a housing;
a sensor array disposed in the housing and configured to generate image data in response to incident x-rays;
a control logic disposed in the housing;
a connector interface integrated with the housing; and
an adapter removably couplable to the connector interface;
wherein:
the control logic is configurable to operate in a plurality of operating modes; and
for a first operating mode of the operating modes, the control logic is configured to process the image data and/or transmit the image data through the adapter differently than for a second operating mode of the operating modes; and
for the first operating mode, the control logic is configured to transmit the image data using a first protocol different than a second protocol used to transmit the image data for the second operating mode.