Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Thomas Van Der Haar

Bjoern Heismann

Silke Janssen

A method is for operation of a counting radiation detector, in particular of a counting X-ray detector, with improved linearity, in which each detector element of the counting radiation detector supplies counting pulses at counting rates as a function of a number of radiation quanta which occur per unit time during operation. In the method, the counting rates which are supplied from each detector element or from subsections of the detector element are converted via a functional relationship to actual counting rates or are multiplied by correction factors which are dependent on the magnitude of the counting rates. The correction factors are determined in advance for the respective detector element or for the subsections of it, and any discrepancy (which occurs as a result of a dead time of the detector element, for example) in the counting rates is corrected from the actual number of radiation quanta which arrive per unit time. The method allows the linearity of counting radiation detectors to be improved, particularly at high radiation intensities, so that the linearity condition for X-ray CT systems is also satisfied.

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Thomas Van Der Haar