Abstract: An image-pickup apparatus including a detector comprising a detecting unit and a reading circuit, the detecting unit including pixels, each of which including a conversion element, the reading circuit which includes a connecting unit that is electrically connected to a signal wire transferring an electric signal and that electrically connects the signal wire to a node, and which performs a reading operation to output the electric signal from the pixel. A control unit controls an operation of the reading circuit, and a sensing unit senses the end of radiation irradiation based on an output of the reading circuit, which is acquired during the period of an accumulation operation of the detector. The control unit starts establishing the electrical connection between the signal wire and the node through the connecting unit based on the sensed irradiation end, and retains the electrical connection until the start of the reading operation.

Abstract: A counting digital X-ray detector for taking X-ray images of an object penetrated by X-ray radiation may include at least one detector module having an X-ray converter for converting X-ray radiation into an electrical signal and a matrix having a large number of counting pixel elements, wherein each counting pixel element has a signal input, a conversion device for converting the electrical signal into a count signal and a first digital storage unit for storing the count signal, wherein exactly one second digital storage unit is allocated to each first storage unit, and this is designed to form a copy of the first storage unit at the moment of transfer by way of a transfer process, and wherein the X-ray detector is designed in such a way that the transfer process can be carried out simultaneously for the large number of pixel elements.

Abstract: A radiation image pickup apparatus includes a pixel array having pixels each including a conversion element and a switch element, a drive circuit for controlling the switch element between a conducting state and a non-conducting state, a detection unit for outputting a detection signal varying with the intensity of irradiation of the pixel array, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a start threshold value used to detect start of irradiation based on the signal output from the detection unit during a period when radiation is not emitted onto the pixel array in which the switch elements are sequentially set in a conducting state on a row-by-row basis by the drive circuit and the signal output from the detection unit during a period when radiation is emitted onto the pixel array in which the switch elements are sequentially set in a conducting state on a row-by-row basis by the drive circuit.

Abstract: A radiation detection device is provided. The radiation detection device includes a pair of rails spaced in a slice direction and extending parallel to a channel direction, and a plurality of collimator modules arranged along the channel direction on a radiation exit side of the pair of rails, wherein at least one of the pair of rails extending along the channel direction includes a plate member with a plurality of notches formed along the radiation exit side, and wherein the collimator modules each include a first pin protruding on a radiation incidence side and attached to the pair of rails with the first pin fitted in one of the notches of the plate member.

Abstract: An ESD protection system includes an ESD leakage bus and an ESD protection circuit having one of its terminals connected to the ESD leakage bus. The ESD protection circuit includes at least a pair of amorphous silicon thin film transistors which are connected in a back-to-back manner, and a first shading layer is provided over the channels of the pair of amorphous silicon thin film transistors. When the ESD protection system is applied to an X-ray flat panel detector, no photocurrent will occur during the use of the X-ray flat panel detector, the effect of the photocurrent on the voltage of the scan line is reduced. Further, when the first shading layer is connected to a negative fixed potential, it can be ensured that the ESD protection circuit has small threshold voltage while the leakage current in the ESD protection circuit is reduced, and power consumption is reduced.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus configured to output an imaging enabling signal in response to an imaging instruction includes an imaging unit, a control unit configured to cause the imaging unit to repeatedly perform initialization driving for reading an accumulated electrical signal, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to start new initialization driving before the imaging enabling signal is output, according to an elapsed time from completion of the last initialization driving to the time of receipt of the imaging instruction.

Abstract: A charged particle system such as a multi beam lithography system. A manipulator device manipulates one or more charged particle beams. The manipulator device includes at least one through opening in the plane of the planar substrate for passing at least one charged particle. Each through opening is provided with electrodes arranged in a first set of multiple first electrodes along a first part of a perimeter of the through opening and in a second set of multiple second electrodes along a second part of the perimeter. An electronic control circuit is arranged for providing voltage differences the electrodes in dependence of a position of the first and second electrode along the perimeter of the through opening.

Abstract: An X-ray detector includes a panel including a plurality of photo-sensing pixels, the photo-sensing pixels being configured to detect an X-ray and to perform photoelectric conversion to output electrical signals, and a read-out integrated circuit connected to the panel, the read-out integrated circuit being configured to read out the electrical signals from the photo-sensing pixels and to generate a self-triggering signal based on the read-out electrical signals.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit alternately carries out (a) a leak data readout process to read out electric charges leaking from radiation detection elements via switch elements set in an OFF state as leak data and (b) a reset process of the radiation detection elements. When a value of the leak data read out in the leak data readout process is equal to or greater than a threshold, the control unit repeats the leak data readout process, skipping the reset process. The control unit detects start of irradiation of the radiation image capturing apparatus when a value of the leak data read out in the repeated readout process is again equal to or greater than the threshold, and does not detect start of the irradiation when the value is smaller than the threshold.

Abstract: An image pickup unit includes: a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion device and a field-effect transistor; and a readout control line and a signal line that are disposed in a peripheral region of the photoelectric conversion device and are connected to the transistor. The readout control line includes a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer that are laminated and are electrically connected to each other. The first wiring layer is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the transistor, and the second wiring layer is provided in a same layer as the signal line.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating control signal in radiation detector systems are provided. One system includes a scheduling architecture having at least one anode channel connected to a detector of the radiation detector system. The anode channel includes a charge sensitive amplifier and a signal shaper, wherein the anode channel is configured to generate at least one control signal to control data acquisition by the detector. The scheduling architecture also includes at least one shaper timer configured having a time constant to define timing for the generation of the control signal without using a clock.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plane detector for a gamma ray burst imager, the detector comprising a multilayer ceramic interconnection circuit between external connectors and a processor circuit fastened on a rear face of the circuit and a detection module fastened on a front face of the circuit. The detection module includes a support having a rear face fastened to the circuit and a front face on which sensors are fastened, and a high voltage electrical connection device having a through portion passing through the support and extending between two adjacent sensors in order to connect a connection pad of the circuit to a conductive grid that extends at least in part between the sensors and that is electrically connected to a free face of each sensor.

Abstract: Radon detection or sensing is provided within a building automation system for a site (e.g., building or campus). As such, one or more short-term and/or long-term radon levels may be detected or monitored. The radon levels are monitored from a remote location. The building automation system may be programmed to automatically respond to a specific (e.g., unsafe) radon level and/or a change in one or more radon levels, or combinations thereof, in order to mitigate or reduce the monitored or detected radon levels. Trending, pattern comparison between radon level and other measured information, automated response, interaction or response between different radon sensors, or combinations thereof may be provided by integrating one or more radon sensors into a building automation system.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing device is provided with plural pixels, a detection unit and a control unit. The pixels are each provided with a sensor portion and a switching element that reads out charges generated at the sensor portion and outputs the charges to a signal line. The detection unit detects the start of irradiation if electronic signals according to the charges satisfy a pre-specified condition for irradiation detection. After the start of irradiation of radiation is detected, the control unit acquires electronic signals corresponding to the charges and determines whether the acquired electronic signals include an electronic signal caused by noise. If the electronic signal caused by noise is included, the control unit controls a reporting unit so as to report this.

Abstract: User-friendliness of a radiation imaging apparatus configured to reset a sensor array is improved. This invention is a radiation imaging apparatus including a two-dimensional sensor array. This apparatus includes a scan control signal generation circuit which controls the reset operation of the two-dimensional sensor array, a row number register which stores the row number of a line currently subjected to the reset operation at the time of detection of radiation irradiation, a scan control signal generation circuit which controls read operation after the completion of the radiation irradiation, and an image processing circuit which interpolates an image, of the image generated based on the signals read by the read operation, which corresponds to a line corresponding to the row number stored in the row number register, by using images of adjacent lines.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus has an image capturing unit that accumulates a charge pixel-by-pixel and outputs an image signal corresponding to the amount of accumulated charge, a generation unit that acquires image signals by performing a set number of readouts of image signals of pixels from the image capturing unit, calculates, with respect to each pixel, image data that is an average of image signals read out from the same pixels, and generates an image having the image data as a characteristic of each pixel, and a correction unit that specifies a position of a defective pixel of the image capturing apparatus and generates correction data that is an image signal that is an average of a set certain number of pixels located in a periphery of a defective pixel.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems described herein provide for a detector array having an effective size that is larger than its actual size of its elements, thus reducing costs by reducing materials required. In one embodiment, one or more channels of the detector array are removed (e.g., and filled with a radiation absorbing material) to create what may be referred to as a sparse array. In another embodiment, one or more channels of a detector array comprise a detection portion and a dead space (e.g., filled with a radiation absorbing material). In yet another embodiment, one or more channels of a detector array comprise light focusing mechanisms configured to focus light from a scintillator portion of an indirect conversion detector array to a photodetector portion of the detector array, where a detection surface area of the photodetector is less than a detection surface area of the scintillator.

Abstract: A radiation image capturing device is provided with plural pixels, a detection unit and a control unit. The pixels are each provided with a sensor portion and a switching element that reads out charges generated at the sensor portion and outputs the charges to a signal line. The detection unit detects the start of irradiation if electronic signals according to the charges satisfy a pre-specified condition for irradiation detection. After the start of irradiation of radiation is detected, the control unit acquires electronic signals corresponding to the charges and determines whether the acquired electronic signals include an electronic signal caused by noise. If the electronic signal caused by noise is included, the control unit controls a reporting unit so as to report this.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first radiation detector to generate a first signal when a first radiation level is exceeded and a second radiation detector to generate a second signal when a second radiation level is exceeded. The second radiation level is greater than the first radiation level. A first circuit is susceptible to soft errors at the first radiation level and a second circuit is susceptible to soft errors at the second radiation level. A control unit may suspend use of the first circuit and activate use of the second circuit if the first signal is received and the second signal is not received. The first and second circuits may be memory cells or logic circuits.

Abstract: A surface contamination monitoring system/method configured to correct the detected the radioactive net count rate (NCR) value of a whole-body surface contamination monitoring device based on monitored subject height and thickness is disclosed. The system includes a height detection means for determining the height of a monitored subject and a thickness detection means for determining the thickness of at least a portion of the monitored subject. The net count rate (NCR) is corrected based on the determined height and thickness of the monitored subject as applied to site calibration factor data and self-shielding factor data to produce a corrected net count rate (CNR). If the corrected net count rate (CNR) registers above a preset alarm threshold, the monitored subject is considered contaminated and an appropriate alarm is registered.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation detecting element and a radiographic imaging device that may reliably detect irradiation of radiation even when a region where radiation is irradiated is set narrowly. Namely, the present invention provides a radiation detection element and a radiographic imaging apparatus, in which radiographic imaging pixels and radiation detection pixels are provided at intersecting portions of scan lines and signal lines.

Abstract: An x-ray detector, especially for a computed tomograph, includes a number of detector modules arranged next to one another in a stacking direction with a front side, which during operation is oriented towards an x-ray source, and with a rear side lying opposite the front side. For screening against x-rays which pass during operation through an installation between two adjacent detector modules, an absorption element is positioned on the rear side of the two adjacent detector modules.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting an isotope. embodiments can detect radioactive isotopes. Embodiments can utilize a detector that incorporates at least two sub-detectors. Each sub-detector can receive energy from an isotope and create a signal corresponding to the received energy. Each sub-detector can incorporate a detector element, such as a detector element incorporating one or more diodes, a detector element incorporating a crystal, a detector element incorporating a solid-state device, or a detector element incorporating a scintillator. The sub-detectors can be configured such that for each isotope to be detected at least two of the sub-detectors produce different output signals, or readings. In an embodiment, each sub-detector is configured such that when there are at least two sub-detectors exposed to the isotope each of the corresponding readings from the sub-detectors are different from each of the other readings.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring an ion distribution of a wafer comprises a first sensor and a sensor. The first sensor, the second sensor and the wafer are placed in an effective range of a uniform ion implantation current profile. A controller determines the ion dose of each region of the wafer based upon the detected signal from the first sensor and the second sensor. In addition, the controller adjusts the scanning frequency of an ion beam or the movement speed of the wafer to achieve a uniform ion distribution on the wafer.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a gamma dose rate measurement system comprising a shielding device and an electronic device. The shielding device is arranged for masking a visible light, so that only a light source substantially being a gamma ray passes through the shielding device. The electronic device comprises a sensing module, an image analysis module and a display module. The sensing module generates a current signal after sensing the gamma ray; the image analysis module receives the current signal and generates an analysis result including a total gamma dose rate and a gamma energy spectrum; and the display module is arranged for displaying the analysis result.

Abstract: There is provided a digital X-ray detector including an X-ray detection array configured to detect an X-ray image when a subject is irradiated with X-ray; a support board supporting a bottom of the X-ray detection array; a case accommodating both the X-ray detection array and the support board and having a plurality of insertion portions formed on four sidewalls thereof; and shock abortion members, each installed to each of the insertion portion and having a head resting on an outer wall of the case and a protrusion extended from the head to thereby be in contact with a sidewall of the support board.

Abstract: The invention relates to a detection device (6) for detecting photons emitted by a radiation source (2). A signal generation unit (20) generates a detection signal indicative of the energy of a detected photon while photons strike the detection device (6), and a baseline signal, which is affected by photons that previously struck the detection device (6), while photons are prevented from striking the detection device (6). A baseline shift determination unit (40) determines a baseline shift of the detection signal depending on the baseline signal. An energy determination unit (30) determines the energy of a detected photon depending on the detection signal and the determined baseline shift. Since the baseline shift of the detection signal is determined from a baseline signal that is generated while photons are prevented from striking the detection device (6), the baseline shift can be determined with higher accuracy, resulting in an improved energy determination.

Abstract: A radiation detection signal processing method and a radiation detection signal processing system using the method are provided, which combine trigger signals and time mark information. The method includes: providing a radiation detection signal processing system having a plurality of front-end detectors, where each front-end detector detects a radiation event to generate a corresponding energy signal; generating a corresponding trigger signal according to the corresponding energy signal; generating a first signal and a second signal according to all trigger signals; and obtaining time differences among the trigger signals according to the first signal and the second signal, converting the time differences into a set of time marks, merging all of the trigger signals and the set of time marks into a hybrid time signal, and transmitting the hybrid time signal to a hybrid event coincidence detection circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation detecting element and a radiographic imaging device that may reliably detect radiation even when a region where radiation is irradiated is set narrowly. Namely, in the radiation detecting element and the radiographic imaging device of the present invention, plural pixels including radiographic imaging pixels and plural radiation detection pixels are disposed in a matrix in a detection region that detects radiation.

Abstract: A radiation detector system/method implementing a corrected energy response detector is disclosed. The system incorporates charged (typically tungsten impregnated) injection molded plastic that may be formed into arbitrary detector configurations to affect radiation detection and dose rate functionality at a drastically reduced cost compared to the prior art, while simultaneously permitting the radiation detectors to compensate for radiation intensity and provide accurate radiation dose rate measurements. Various preferred system embodiments include configurations in which the energy response of the detector is nominally isotropic, allowing the detector to be utilized within a wide range of application orientations. The method incorporates utilization of a radiation detector so configured to compensate for radiation counts and generate accurate radiation dosing rate measurements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device, etc. having a structure for capturing a high-resolution image even when any row selecting wiring is disconnected. The solid-state imaging device (1) comprises a photodetecting section (10), a signal reading-out section (20), a row selecting section (30), a column selecting section (40), an overflow preventing section (50), and a controlling section (60). The photodetecting section (10) has M×N pixel portions P1,1 to PM,N two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix of M rows and N columns, and each of the pixel portions P1,1 to PM,N includes a photodiode that generates charge of an amount according to an incident light intensity and a reading-out switch connected to the photodiode. Each of the N pixel portions Pm,1 to Pm,N belonging to an m-th row is connected to the row selecting section (30) and the overflow preventing section (50) by an m-th row selecting wiring LV,m.

Abstract: An image processing device of a radiation image acquisition device (100) uses a weighted filter to perform a smoothing (processing S102) on an image obtained by counting the number of incident gamma rays. The image processing device suppresses pixel values of a threshold value or less on the smoothed image (processing S103). Further, the image processing device again applies a weighted and smoothing filter to the image processed by a threshold-value processing, to expand the pixels of the accumulation portion (processing S104); thus providing an image that facilitates finding the accumulation portion of a radioisotope.

Abstract: An X-ray detector assembly includes an integrated circuit, which includes an array of detector elements and a readout circuit adjacent to the array and coupled to read charge out of the detector elements. A non-metallic shield is positioned over the readout circuit so as to prevent X-rays from striking the readout circuit.

Abstract: A secondary charged particle detection device for detection of a signal beam is described. The device includes a detector arrangement having at least two detection elements with active detection areas, wherein the active detection areas are separated by a gap (G), a particle optics configured for separating the signal beam into a first portion of the signal beam and into at least one second portion of the signal beam, and configured for focusing the first portion of the signal beam and the at least one second portion of the signal beam. The particle optics includes an aperture plate and at least a first inner aperture openings in the aperture plate, and at least one second radially outer aperture opening in the aperture plate, wherein the aperture plate is configured to be biased to one potential surrounding the first inner aperture opening and the at least one outer aperture opening.

Abstract: A secondary charged particle detection device for detection of a signal beam is described. The device includes a detector arrangement having at least two detection elements with active detection areas, wherein the active detection areas are separated by a gap, a particle optics configured for separating the signal beam in a first portion of the signal beam and in at least one second portion of the signal beam, configured for focusing the first portion of the signal beam, and configured for deflecting and focusing the at least one second portion of the signal beam, wherein the particle optics includes a first electrode and at least one second electrode. Therein, the first electrode is an inner electrode and the at least one second electrode is provided radially outward of the first electrode.

Abstract: A variable waveform detector may include multiple stages.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes plural pixels arranged in a matrix each including a conversion element and a switch element, plural drive wires arranged in a column direction, a drive circuit configured to sequentially supply a conduction voltage to the plural drive wires and supply a non-conduction voltage to the drive wires other than the drive wire supplied with the conduction voltage among the plural drive wires, and a sensing unit configured to sense radiation irradiation to the pixel, in which the sensing unit includes a sensing circuit configured to sense the radiation irradiation to the pixel on the basis of a current flowing through the drive wire supplied with the non-conduction voltage among the plurality of drive wires.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in which each pixel includes a conversion element configured to convert radiation into a charge and a switch element configured to transfer an electric signal based on the charge, a bias wiring through which the conversion element is supplied with a voltage for the conversion element to convert the radiation into the charge, a power supply unit configured to supply the voltage to the bias wiring; and a detecting unit configured to detect start of radiation irradiation to the pixel array, in which the detecting unit includes a detecting circuit configured to detect the start of the radiation irradiation to the pixel array on the basis of a comparison result through computation on at least two currents flowing through at least two bias wirings among the plurality of bias wirings.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in which each pixel includes a conversion element configured to convert radiation into a charge and a switch element configured to transfer an electric signal based on the charge, a plurality of wirings arranged in the pixel array, and a detecting unit configured to detect radiation irradiation to the pixel array, in which the detecting unit includes a detecting circuit configured to detect the radiation irradiation to the pixel array on the basis of a plurality of currents flowing through the plurality of wirings detected for each of the plurality of wirings.

Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus including pixels; driving lines; a driving circuit; bias lines; an acquisition unit configured to acquire an evaluation value based on a current flowing in the bias line; a determination unit configured to compare the evaluation value with a comparison target value to determine whether radiation is irradiated; a control unit configured to control the acquisition unit and the determination unit; and a storage unit configured to store the evaluation value used in the determination process, is provided. A comparison target value used in a given determination process is based on one or more evaluation values used in one or more determination processes which are performed before the given determination process and in which it is determined that radiation has not been irradiated.

Abstract: An X-ray imaging system has two types of electronic cassettes and one type of IP cassette. Upon entering a body portion to be imaged, an input and output controller retrieves from an imaging condition table of the IP cassette an imaging condition corresponding to the body portion as a reference imaging condition. An imaging condition calculator multiplies reference exposure time of the reference imaging condition by a sensitivity coefficient of each electronic cassette, to calculate an imaging condition to be applied in using each electronic cassette. An input and output controller displays the imaging conditions of the electronic cassettes and the IP cassette and choice buttons for choosing one of the electronic cassettes and the IP cassette in a list form on a monitor.

Abstract: The present invention provides a readout device of an accelerator beam monitoring detector, comprising: a transimpedance amplifier receiving a charge signal from a particle detector and converting the charge signal into an analog voltage signal; and a data acquisition system comprising an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to covert the analog voltage signal into digital data.

Abstract: An X-ray detector with photon-counting directly converting detector elements and a method for the temperature stabilization of at least one detector element of an X-ray detector of a CT system are disclosed, wherein the detector elements use a sensor material which converts incident photons of radiation directly into free-moving charge in the sensor material and wherein with the aid of a circuit arrangement (e.g. an ASIC), the number of incident photons in relation to predefined energy ranges (e.g., to imaging) is determined, wherein the total electrical power of at least one detector element is kept constant regardless of the incident intensity of radiation.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a control unit and a detector that includes multiple pixels and that performs an image capturing operation to output image data corresponding to radiation or light that is emitted. The image capturing operation includes a first image capturing operation in a first scanning area corresponding to part of the multiple pixels to output image data in the first scanning area and a second image capturing operation in a second scanning area larger than the first scanning area to output image data in the second scanning area. The control unit causes the detector to perform an accumulation operation in the second image capturing operation in a time determined so that an image artifact caused by the scanning area is lower than a predetermined allowable value on the basis of information about the amount of integration of accumulation times in the first image capturing operation.

Abstract: A method for detecting contamination on a moving object moving in a longitudinal direction past a plurality of detectors, wherein a count rate is captured repeatedly by each of the detectors during the movement of the object past the detectors, the captured count rates are weighted in that the count rates of the detector(s) that have a greater separation distance from the object to be measures are weighted lower than the count rates of the detector(s) that have a smaller separation distance from the object to be measured.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a detector (104) having a first area where irradiation occurs in a radiation field (A) and a second area other than the first area where irradiation occurs in a radiation field (B) and configured to output image data, and an image processing unit (601) that performs image processing on the image data. The image processing unit (601) includes a storage unit (602) that stores dark output information, a measurement unit (607) that measures the integral dose of the radiation or light applied to a pixel in the first area and the integral dose of the radiation or light applied to a pixel in the second area, and a correction unit (610) that corrects the image data, based on the dark output information obtained from the storage unit (602) and the integral doses measured by the measurement unit (607), when changing of the radiation field has occurred.

Abstract: Multiple detectors arranged in a ring within a specimen chamber provide a large solid angle of collection. The detectors preferably include a shutter and a cold shield that reduce ice formation on the detector. By providing detectors surrounding the sample, a large solid angle is provided for improved detection and x-rays are detected regardless of the direction of sample tilt.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for parallel readout for an X-ray image sensor module having a pixel array. Specifically, among other things, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented infrastructure comprising: capturing an electrical signal at each of a plurality of pixels within the pixel array; converting each of the captured electrical signals into a respective voltage; comparing each of the respective voltages with a reference voltage to discriminate whether the electric signal from the sensor represents a photon detection; counting a photon detection for each of the plurality of pixels within the pixel array based upon an output of the comparator; connecting all pixels in each of the columns; and sequentially selecting said rows of pixels for readout over the column bus lines at a sensor output.

Abstract: Disclosed is a beam monitor system in which signals outputted from a plurality of wires are divided in a multi-wire type monitor for measuring a beam profile of a charged particle beam, an identical number of the wires are grouped, the signals of the respective groups are taken out one piece by one piece to be connected with each other, and the number of the pieces, corresponding to a number of the wires belonging to the one group, are put together to be connected to a signal processor storing connection information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for parallel readout for an X-ray image sensor module having a pixel array. Specifically, among other things, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented infrastructure comprising: generating a first pixel data for each pixel within a first pixel row of the pixel array based on a first photon count; generating a second pixel data for each pixel within a second pixel row of the pixel array based on a second photon count; receiving the first serial pixel data at a buffer; transmitting the first serial data to a column bus line; and receiving the second serial pixel data at the buffer, wherein the second serial pixel data is received at the buffer in parallel to the transmitting the first serial data to the column bus line.