摘要:
The invention relates to an X-ray imaging device including a rotary collimator having a region (22) which is opaque to X-rays, a first slot (24) and a second slot (26), which are transparent to X-rays and extend in two different directions, passing through said opaque region, the collimator making it possible to determine the position of an element provided with X-ray sensors in an imaging system.
摘要:
A method includes determining calibration factors for calibrating photon-counting detectors of a spectral imaging system by combining a heuristic calibration of the photon-counting detectors and an analytical calibration of the photon-counting detectors and generating a set of photon-counting calibration factors based on the combining of the a heuristic calibration and the analytical calibration. The photon-counting calibration factors, when applied to measured energy-resolved data from the photon-counting detectors of a spectral CT scan of a subject or object, mitigate spectral distortion caused by a radiation intensity profile shaper that filters a radiation beam of the spectral CT scan.
摘要:
The invention relates to a detection apparatus (12) for detecting photons. The detection apparatus comprises a pile-up determining unit (15) for determining whether detection signal pulses being indicative of detected photons are caused by a pile-up event or by a non-pile-up event, wherein a detection values generating unit (16) generates detection values depending on the detection signal pulses and depending on the determination whether the respective detection signal pulse is caused by a pile-up event or by a non-pile-up event. In particular, the detection values generating unit can be adapted to reject the detection signal pulses caused by pile-up events while generating the detection values. This allows for an improved quality of the generated detection values.
摘要:
An imaging system generates a first radiograph based on a first pattern of radiation detected by a Linear Diode Array (LDA) radiation detector positioned to detect a radiation beam emitted by a radiation generator. The LDA radiation detector comprises a plurality of modules. Each respective module of the plurality of modules comprises a respective plurality of photodiodes corresponding to pixels. Furthermore, the imaging system may determine, based on the first radiograph, a size of a gap between two of the modules of the LDA radiation detector. After determining the size of the gap, the imaging system may generate a second radiograph based on a second pattern of radiation detected by the LDA radiation detector. The imaging system may generate a third radiograph by modifying, based on the size of the gap, the second radiograph to compensate for the gap.
摘要:
Verfahren zur Korrektur eines mit einer Röntgeneinrichtung (13) mit einem Streustrahlenraster (18) aufgenommenen Röntgenbilds (1) auf Effekte des Streustrahlenrasters (18), wobei das Streustrahlenraster (18) eine sich räumlich periodisch wiederholende geometrische Ausgestaltung aufweist und ein ohne Bildgebungsobjekt aufgenommenes Kalibrierungsbild (2) verwendet wird, wobei das Kalibrierungsbild (2) und das Röntgenbild (1) mittels einer Transformation in den Ortsfrequenzraum transformiert werden, im Ortsfrequenzraum ein Übereinstimmungsmaß zwischen dem Röntgenbild (1) und dem Kalibrierungsbild (2) optimierende Veränderungen des Kalibrierungsbildes (2) beschreibende Anpassungsparameter ermittelt werden, zur Korrektur das angepasste Kalibrierungsbild (2) von dem Röntgenbild subtrahiert (1) wird und das Röntgenbild (1) durch Anwendung des Inversen der Transformation wieder in den Ortsraum zurücktransformiert wird.
摘要:
A method, consisting of generating, using a plurality of magnetic transmitters, a magnetic field in a region and introducing a field perturbing element into the region. The method includes characterizing multiple images of each magnetic transmitter in the field perturbing element, and calculating a reaction magnetic field in the region based on the characterized images. The method further includes positioning a probe in the region and measuring a perturbed magnetic field at the probe, and determining a location of the probe in response to the measured perturbed magnetic field and the calculated reaction magnetic field.