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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2006
Manoj Narayanan, Snohomish, WA (US);
Bart Jacob Bakker, Eindhoven, NL;
Daniel Gagnon, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Alexander Fischer, Aachen, DE;
Lothar Spies, Hamburg, DE;
Manoj Narayanan, Snohomish, WA (US);
Bart Jacob Bakker, Eindhoven, NL;
Daniel Gagnon, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Alexander Fischer, Aachen, DE;
Lothar Spies, Hamburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An imaging system () comprises a data device (), which controls radiation data acquisition from a subject positioned in an examination region () for an examination. A rebinning processor () bins the acquired data periodically into a histogram (). A transform () transforms the histogram () into individual independent or uncorrelated components, each component including a signal content and a noise content. A stopping determining device () compares an aspect of at least one selected component to a predetermined threshold (TH) and, based on the comparison, terminates the data acquisition.