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Method for correcting image errors in an x-ray image, and x-ray diagnostic apparatus and solid-state radiation detector operating in accordance with the method

Patent 6028314 Issued on February 22, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject July 31, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

Method and device for compensating for differences in sensitivities to incident radiation of a luminescent layer and a transducer
Patent #: 5136165
Issued on: 08/04/1992
Inventor: Lumma

Image detection device having correction circuit for removing artifacts due to delayed charge transfer Patent #: 5530238
Issued on: 06/25/1996
Inventor: Meulenbrugge, et al.

Inventor

Assignee

Application

No. 903883 filed on 07/31/1997

US Classes:

250/370.11, Scintillation system250/252.1, CALIBRATION OR STANDARDIZATION METHODS250/363.09, With calibration250/370.09, X-ray or gamma-ray system250/371Methods

Examiners

Primary: Hannaher, Constantine

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 1 122 114 SU 05/21/1988
  • WO 96/16510 WO. 05/21/1996

International Class

G01T 001/16

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-08-01 DE

Abstract

In a method for correcting the image errors arising during an x-ray diagnostic measurement from the memory effect of a radiation-sensitive structure, particularly in the form of a photodiode array, of a solid-state detector which receiving the x-rays, given a change in the operating mode with a change of the radiation dose, a correction image is determined that is subtracted from the detector image obtained from the solid-state detector. For determining the correction image, at least one image signal supplied by the solid-state detector substantially immediately before or after the change in the operating mode, and thus the change of the radiation dose, is registered, this being subsequently weighted with at least one decay curve measured substantially synchronously with the pick-up of at least the image signal supplied immediately before the change, and substantially corresponding to the chronological decay behavior of the electrical charge in the radiation-sensitive structure of the solid-state detector of the image signal.

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