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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2001
Stefan Boehm, Zirndorf, DE;
Martin Spahn, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In a method for operating an imaging medical examination device ( ), an event of the undisturbed operation of the medical examination device ( ) automatically triggers a defect determination ( ) for determining a defective pixel possibly present in the image. The event is derived for example from a switch-on process, a calibration process and/or an examination process. Preferably, after the defect determination ( ), a correction process ( ) is automatically triggered if a defective pixel was detected. A medical examination device ( ) has a detection device ( ) for automatically determining a defective pixel possibly present in the image, in which case the detection device ( ) can be activated by an event of the undisturbed operation of the medical examination device. A correction device ( ) for automatically eliminating a defective pixel that has possibly been detected is preferably present.