A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, plural pixels provided on the substrate and each including a photoelectric conversion element, a scintillator stacked on the substrate and including plural columnar crystals, and a bending suppression member configured to suppress bending of the substrate. The bending suppression member has a rigidity that satisfies RLr/tan +4r.Math.{(Lr/tan ).sup.2(d/2).sup.2}.sup.1/2/d, wherein L is an average height of the columnar crystals, r is an average radius of the columnar crystals, d is an average interval between the columnar crystals, is an average tip angle of the columnar crystals, and R is a radius of curvature of bending occurring in the substrate due to the weight of the scintillator.

A PET detecting device may include a plurality of detection modules and a processing engine. Each of the plurality of detection modules may include a scintillator array, one or more photoelectric converters, one or more energy information determination circuits and a time information determination circuit. The scintillator array may interact with a plurality of photons at respective interaction points to generate a plurality of optical signals. The one or more photoelectric converters may convert the plurality of optical signals to one or more electric signals that each include an energy signal and a time signal. The one or more energy information determination circuits may generate energy information based on the one or more energy signals. The time information determination circuit may generate time information based on the one or more time signals. The processing engine may generate an image based on the energy information and the time information.

A detection device is provided. The detection device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface is disposed opposite to the second surface. The detection device also includes a switch element disposed on the first surface, and a light sensing element disposed on the first surface and electrically connected to the switch element. The detection device also includes a first circuit disposed on the second surface. The substrate has a first through-via, and the switch element is electrically connected to the first circuit through the first through-via.

A detection substrate, a ray imaging device, and a method for driving a detection substrate are provided. The detection substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of sensing TFTs; a plurality of signal read lines; a compensation TFT row including a plurality of compensation TFTs, wherein a first electrode of each of the compensation TFTs is electrically connected to the same signal read line as first electrodes of the sensing TFTs in corresponding sensing TFT column. As for the sensing TFTs and the compensation TFT electrically connected to the same signal read line, the first electrodes of both the sensing TFTs and the compensation TFT are source electrodes or drain electrodes, source-drain directions of the sensing TFTs are consistent with one another, and a source-drain direction of the compensation TFT is opposite to each of the source-drain directions of the sensing TFTs.

The present technology relates to an optical pulse detection device, an optical pulse detection method, a radiation counter device, and a biological testing device which are capable of performing radiation counting in a more accurate manner. The optical pulse detection device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional lattice shape, an AD converter that converts output signals of each of the pixels in the pixel array unit into digital values with gradation greater than 1 bit, and an output control circuit that performs error determination processing of comparing the digital value with a predetermined threshold value, and discarding a digital value, which is greater than the threshold value, among the digital values as an error. For example, the present technology is applicable to a radiation counter device, and the like.

A radiation detection apparatus can include a scintillator to emit scintillating light in response to absorbing radiation; a photosensor to generate an electronic pulse in response to receiving the scintillating light; an analyzer to determine a characteristic of the radiation; and a housing that contains the scintillator, the photosensor, and the analyzer, wherein the radiation detection apparatus to is configured to allow functionality be changed without removing the analyzer from the housing. The radiation detection apparatus can be more compact and more rugged as compared to radiation detection apparatuses that include a photomultiplier tube.

A radiation imaging apparatus comprises at least one first detection element including a first conversion element configured to convert radiation into an electrical signal and a first switch configured to connect an output from the first conversion element to a first signal line, at least one second detection element including a second conversion element configured to convert radiation into an electrical signal and a second switch configured to connect an output from the second conversion element to a second signal line, a readout unit configured to read out signals appearing on the first signal line and the second signal line, and a signal processing circuit configured to process a signal read out from the readout unit. A sensitivity of the first conversion element for the radiation is set to be different from a sensitivity of the second conversion element for the radiation.

An apparatus, device and method for measuring a breakdown voltage are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a controlled voltage source (122), a current detection circuit (124), and a processing circuit (126). The controlled voltage source (122) is used for providing a series of test bias voltages for the sensor unit (110). The current detection circuit (124) is used for detecting a current signal output by the sensor unit (110) and generating a corresponding detection signal. The processing circuit (126) is used for controlling the controlled voltage source (122) to provide a series of test bias voltages, calculating dark currents respectively corresponding to the series of test bias voltages on the basis of the detection signal, and determining a breakdown voltage of the sensor unit (110) on the basis of the series of test bias voltages and the dark currents.

An apparatus, device and method for measuring a gain of a sensor are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a current detection circuit (122) and a processing circuit (124). An input end of the current detection circuit (122) is used for connecting to an output end of a sensor unit (110). The current detection circuit (122) is used for detecting a current signal output by the sensor unit and generating a corresponding detection signal. An input end of the processing circuit (124) is connected to an output end of the current detection circuit (122). The processing circuit (124) is used for calculating energy of dark events occurring in the sensor unit (110) according to the detection signal, generating an energy spectrogram of the dark event, and calculating a gain of the sensor unit (110) based on the energy spectrogram.

A read network topology for a matrix output device with a number of outputs determined by cross-joining m rows and n columns comprises a basic filtering block replicated for all the outputs and separately assigned to each of the outputs; each filtering block contains two filtering circuits that have a common input connection to the assigned matrix output and that provide two separate symmetrical and filtered outputs; all the row outputs (i) from the same row i but from different columns are interconnected to an input of an amplifier linked to row i, and all the column outputs (j) from the same column j but from different rows are connected together to an input of an amplifier linked to column j, the complete topology appearing when i and j are expanded in the respective intervals thereof.