Abstract:
In a method and arrangement for correcting an arrangement for driving imagereproducing means subject to inertia, and particularly liquid crystal displays, wherein a stored correcting variable is added to infed video signals to compensate for the effects of inertia, which correcting variable depends on changes in the video signals from frame to frame, and wherein the corrected video signals are conveyed to the image-reproducing means, provision is made for a test pattern that contains signal jumps that occur from frame to frame to be generated, for the signal jumps to vary in respect of their sign, their size and their position in the amplitude range of the video signals, for the test video signals to be shown on the imagereproducing means at least in a part that is covered by at least one opto-electrical sensor, and for correcting parameters to be derived from the signals generated by the at least one optoelectrical sensor while taking account of the totality of the signals generated by the at least one opto-electrical sensor.
Abstract:
A diagnostic imaging device includes a signal processing circuit (22) processes signals from a detector array (16) which detects radiation from an imaging region (20). The hit signals are indicative of a corresponding detector (18) being hit by a radiation photon. The signal processing circuit (22) includes a plurality of input channels (321, 322, 323, 324 ), each input channel receiving hit signals from a corresponding detector element (18) such that each input channel (321, 322, 323 , 324 ) corresponds to a location at which each hit signal is received. A plurality of integrators (42) integrate signals from the input channels (32) to determine an energy value associated with each radiation hit. A plurality of analog-to-digital converters (441, 442, 443, 44 4 ) convert the integrated energy value into a digital energy value. A plurality of time to digital converters (40) receive the hit signals and generate a digital time stamp. OR logic (36, 38) relays signal hits from a subset of the plurality of input channels (32) to one of the ADC (44) and one of the time to digital converters (40), the subset including more than one input channel such that more than one input channel is connected with each ADC (44) and/or each time-to-digital converter (40). A register and read out (25) reads out the locations, the digital energy values, and the digital time stamps for hit signals.
Abstract:
In a system for driving inertia-prone picture-reproducing devices, in particular liquid-crystal displays, in which a correcting value that depends on changes in the video signals from frame to frame is added to incoming video signals to compensate for the inertial effects and in which the corrected video signals are passed to the picture-reproducing device to form the correcting value, a model of the picture-reproducing device is provided that has a state variable as an output variable, the video signals as a first input variable and the state variable from a preceding frame as a second input variable. Furthermore, to derive the correcting value, a function having the incoming video signals and the state variable of the preceding variable as input variables and the corrected video signals as an output variable.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a radiation detector (100) that is particularly suited for energy resolved single X-rayphoton detection in a CT scanner. In a preferred embodiment, the detector (100) comprises an array of scintillator elements (S k ) in which incident X-ray photons (X) are converted into bursts of optical photons(hn). Pixels (P k ) associated to the scintillator elements (S k ) determine the numbers of optical photons they receive within predetermined acquisition intervals. These numbers can then be digitally processed to detect single X-rayphotons(X) and to determine their energy. The pixels may particularly be realized by avalanche photodiodes withassociated digitalelectronic circuits for data processing.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to several crystal arrangements for time-of-flight (ToF) positron emission tomography (PET) with depth of interaction (DOI) encoding for high spatial, energy and timing resolution. Additionally, several implementations of the ToF- DOI PET detector arrays are proposed with related measurements which all show that no timing degradation is visible in the used setup for first photon trigger for digital silicon photo multipliers (dSiPMs).
Abstract:
A method includes obtaining an image of a region of interest of a subject, wherein the image is generated with image data produced by an imaging system used to scan the subject, obtaining a signal indicative of a physiological state of the subject before the scan, and displaying both the image and data indicative of the physiological state. In another aspect, a method includes correcting, via a processor, a tracer uptake value for a target region of interest based on a tracer uptake correction factor.