US 12,372,674 B2
X-ray detectors with plastic housings
Xiaoyang Shen, Salt Lake City, UT (US); Marcelo C. Costa, Draper, UT (US); and Matt McCabe, Kearns, UT (US)
Assigned to Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Appl. No. 18/261,106
Filed by Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 1, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/023156
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/212909, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 6, 2022.
Application 18/261,106 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/234,645, filed on Apr. 19, 2021, granted, now 12,032,106.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/169,805, filed on Apr. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0085578 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G01T 1/24 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/244 (2013.01) [G01T 1/2019 (2020.05); G01T 1/243 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An x-ray detector, comprising:
a plastic housing;
a two-dimensional sensor array disposed within the plastic housing and configured to generate image data in response to incident x-rays;
a front plate connected to the plastic housing, the front plate and the plastic housing forming an enclosure surrounding the two-dimensional sensor array; and
a printed circuit board mounted to the plastic housing at a plurality of mount points;
wherein a centroid of the printed circuit board is closer to a center of the plastic housing than a centroid of the mount points.