Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Horst Bruening

Wolfgang Schubert

Julius Brunner

Gunter Hahn

Albrecht Baer

An x-ray detector includes a scintillation element having a radiation entry side and a radiation exit side disposed in succession in a direction of radiation propagation, with respective photosemiconductor layers in optical contact with the scintillation element being disposed on both the radiation entry side and the radiation exit side of the scintillation element. The layers on each side are separated to form a succession of discrete photodiodes, and the photodiodes on one side of the scintillation element may be offset relative to the photodiodes on the other side of the scintillation element.

X-ray detector

A computer tomography apparatus has an x-ray source with a focus, with the focus being periodically deflected during data acquisition, specifically during mean value formation of the signals obtained by the radiation detector. The mean value formation is not undertaken simultaneously for all detector elements, but instead is undertaken chronologically offset from detector element to detector element. A memory in which the analog measured values available at the end of an interval would be stored is thus not needed.

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