Area array detector, detection method, and corresponding container/vehicle inspection system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12306359-B2
Application number	US-202217994364-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 27, 2022
Priority date	Nov 26, 2021
Publication date	May 20, 2025
Grant date	May 20, 2025

Abstract

This disclosure provides an area array detector, a detection method, and a corresponding container/vehicle inspection system, and relates to the field of ray scanning. The area array detector for the container/vehicle inspection system includes sparsely arranged detector assemblies, and a first detector assembly is different from other second detector assemblies; and a backplane for carrying and mounting detector assemblies, and the area array detector supporting scanning modes is enabled.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An area array detector for a container/vehicle inspection system, comprising:
a plurality of sparsely arranged detector assemblies, wherein a first detector assembly is different from other second detector assemblies;
a backplane for carrying and mounting the plurality of detector assemblies; and
a data acquisition circuit board configured to acquire detection data of the plurality of detector assemblies, and according to different scanning modes, output the detection data of the first detector assembly or the detection data of all the detector assemblies for imaging in a corresponding scanning mode, wherein the detection data of the first detector assembly and the detection data of the second detector assembly are processed into the same pixel size by pixel division or pixel combination, before outputting the detection data of all the detector assemblies.

2. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein the first detector assembly and the second detector assembly have different scintillator arrays.

3. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein the scintillator arrays of the first detector assembly and the second detector assembly differ in at least one of a pixel size or material.

4. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein a preset number of adjacently arranged detector assemblies are disposed inside one detector housing to form one independent detector unit with an all-sealed structure, the detector unit being seal mounted with the backplane.

5. The area array detector according to claim 4 , wherein the preset number comprises 2.

6. The area array detector according to claim 4 , further comprising: a filler assembly, wherein the filler assembly and a detector assembly arranged adjacent to the filler assembly are disposed inside one detector housing to form one independent detector unit with an all-sealed structure, the detector unit being seal mounted with the backplane.

7. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein the backplane is a planar backplane or a curved backplane.

8. The area array detector according to claim 7 , wherein the plurality of detector assemblies are arranged on a curved surface of the curved backplane, wherein detection sensitive surfaces of the plurality of detector assemblies are curved and aligned with a ray source located in a central area of the curved surface.

9. The area array detector according to claim 3 , wherein a first pixel size of a scintillator array of the first detector assembly is less than a second pixel size of the scintillator array of the second detector assembly.

10. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the area array detectors are spliced into a larger area array detector.

11. The area array detector according to claim 1 , wherein the data acquisition circuit board is configured to output the detection data of the first detector assembly for DR imaging in a digital radiography DR scanning mode, and output the detection data of all the detector assemblies for CT imaging in a computed tomography CT scanning mode.

12. A container/vehicle inspection system, comprising an area array detector, comprising:
a plurality of sparsely arranged detector assemblies, wherein a first detector assembly is different from other second detector assemblies;
a backplane for carrying and mounting the plurality of detector assemblies; and
a data acquisition circuit board configured to acquire detection data of the plurality of detector assemblies, and according to different scanning modes, output the detection data of the first detector assembly or the detection data of all the detector assemblies for imaging in a corresponding scanning mode, wherein the detection data of the first detector assembly and the detection data of the second detector assembly are processed into the same pixel size by pixel division or pixel combination, before outputting the detection data of all the detector assemblies.

13. The container/vehicle inspection system according to claim 12 , wherein the first detector assembly and the second detector assembly have different scintillator arrays.

14. The container/vehicle inspection system according to claim 12 , wherein the scintillator arrays of the first detector assembly and the second detector assembly differ in at least one of a pixel size or material.

15. A detection method, comprising:
acquiring detection data of a plurality of sparsely arranged detector assemblies, wherein a first detector assembly in the plurality of detector assemblies is different from other second detector assemblies; and
according to different scanning modes, outputting the detection data of the first detector assembly or the detection data of all the detector assemblies for imaging in a corresponding scanning mode, wherein the detection data of the first detector assembly and the detection data of the second detector assembly are processed into the same pixel size by pixel division or pixel combination, before outputting the detection data of all the detector assemblies.

16. The detection method according to claim 15 , wherein a DR scanning mode includes the detection data of the first detector assembly that is output for DR imaging, and wherein a CT scanning mode includes the detection data of the detector assemblies that are output for CT imaging.

17. The detection method according to claim 16 , wherein the DR scanning mode is performed first, and is switched to the CT scanning mode when a suspicious substance difficult to distinguish is found.

Assignees

• Nuctech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tan Linxia
• Yu Hao
• Zou Xiang
• Zhu Weibin
• Wang Junxiao

Classifications

• G01V5/226

  using tomography · CPC title

• G01T1/2018

  Scintillation-photodiode combinations · CPC title

• G01V5/20

  Detecting prohibited goods, e.g. weapons, explosives, hazardous substances, contraband or smuggled objects · CPC title

• G01N2223/501

  array · CPC title

• G01T1/2985 Primary

  In depth localisation, e.g. using positron emitters; Tomographic imaging (longitudinal and transverse section imaging; apparatus for radiation diagnosis sequentially in different planes, steroscopic radiation diagnosis); (using external radiation sources A61B6/02) · CPC title