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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1999
Guy M. Besson, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Armin H. Pfoh, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A single-slice data acquisition system (DAS) for a CT imaging system is time-multiplexed to measure more than one signal over the DAS standard sampling time interval. In one embodiment, a detector element includes a scintillator and two photodiodes aligned with respective portions of the scintillator. Each photodiode generates a signal based on the scintillator output. The signal from one of the photodiodes is subjected to a time-dependent gain during consecutive sampling intervals. The gain-adjusted signal and the signal from the other photodiode are combined, and the combined signal is processed to obtain an estimate of the z-derivative of the signal. The estimated z-derivative is then used to generate a high quality image.