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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2020
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld, DE;
Bernhard Schmidt, Fuerth, DE;
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method is for producing a CT image data set via a detection unit with a photon-counting X-ray detector and configured to convert detected X-rays into measurement signals resolved at least into a first and a second energy range and, via an X-ray source unit, configured to emit X-rays having a first energy spectrum and having a different second energy spectrum. The method includes adapting the first and the second energy ranges, at least one limiting energy of each energy range being adapted; emitting X-rays of the first and second energy spectrum; detecting the emitted X-rays, at least one measurement signal being generated as a function of each respective energy range and the respective energy spectrum; producing the spectral CT image data set based upon the generated first and second measurement signals with the assistance of a spectral image processing technique; and outputting the spectral CT image data set.