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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1991
Filed:
May. 25, 1988
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The coordinates X and Y of the location of a scintillation crystal excited by nuclear radiation are determined as a function of the signals X.sup.+, X.sup.-, Y.sup.+, Y.sup.- produced conventionally by an electronic circuit associated with the scintillation crystal. The signals X.sup.+, X.sup.-, Y.sub.+ and Y.sup.- are digitized and the digital coordinate X (respectively Y) is obtained as the product of a first digital data item X.sup.+ -X.sup.- (respectively Y.sup.+ -Y.sup.-) and a second digital data item inversely proportional to the energy of the nuclear radiation received. To prevent beats in the value of the coordinates X and Y, which leads to a moire phenomenon in the radiation image, a random element is introduced into the calculation, for example by adding p random bits to the first digital data item.