Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photon count correction
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Application No.: US14347994Application Date: 2011-09-30
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Publication No.: US09846244B2Publication Date: 2017-12-19
- Inventor: Doug Abraham , Basak Ulker Karbeyaz , Olivier Tousignant
- Applicant: Doug Abraham , Basak Ulker Karbeyaz , Olivier Tousignant
- Applicant Address: US MA Peabody
- Assignee: ANALOGIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: ANALOGIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Peabody
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- International Application: PCT/US2011/054203 WO 20110930
- International Announcement: WO2013/048436 WO 20130404
- Main IPC: G01T1/17
- IPC: G01T1/17 ; G01N23/04 ; H04N5/32 ; H04N5/365

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or systems are described for addressing (e.g., during calibration) pixel-by-pixel variations in an image modality that utilizes photon counting techniques, such as by adjusting a number of photons detected by certain pixels (e.g., redistributing or reallocating detected photons among pixels). Such variations may cause an effective area of one or more pixels of a detector array to be larger than the effective area of other pixels, resulting in more photons being counted by some pixels than others, which can degrade resulting images. Accordingly, photons are redistributed as provided herein so that, when exposed to substantially uniform radiation, photon counts of neighboring pixels are substantially equal, statistical noise among neighboring pixels is substantially equal, and a signal-to-noise ratio among neighboring pixels is substantially equal. By redistributing photons as described herein, a spatial uniformity and/or a modulated transfer function (MTF) associated with a detector array may be improved.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140326894A1 PHOTON COUNT CORRECTION Public/Granted day:2014-11-06
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