A partial solution to the problem of reducing the time needed to produce a two-dimensional image with a basically unidimensional detector can be achieved by increasing the number of layers of the detector. A prototype of such a multilayer detector has been constructed by coupling several basic modules to obtain a total of three layers, each with 256 200x300 mm² pixels.
  The picture shows one stage of the stacking operation involving the basic detector modules. The multilayer detector protptype has been already successfully tested at the SYRMEP beamline.