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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2008
Christian Baeumer, Hergenrath, BE;
Guenter Zeitler, Aachen, DE;
Klaus Juergen Engel, Aachen, DE;
Christoph Herrmann, Aachen, DE;
Roger Steadman Booker, Aachen, DE;
Christian Baeumer, Hergenrath, BE;
Guenter Zeitler, Aachen, DE;
Klaus Juergen Engel, Aachen, DE;
Christoph Herrmann, Aachen, DE;
Roger Steadman Booker, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to processing electronics () for a detector () of an X-ray imaging device (), the processing electronics () with a pulse counter section () having at least one count output () and with an integrator section () having an intensity output (), wherein the processing electronics () is adapted to be connected to a sensor () in such a manner that X-ray photons () arriving at the sensor () can be processed by the pulse counter section (), by the integrator section (), or both, and wherein the processing electronics () comprises a processor () adapted to be connected to the count output () and to the intensity output () and adapted to output a count result (K) that takes into account both count information (N) obtained at the count output () and intensity information (I) obtained at the intensity output (), so that the count result (K) contains information (N) obtained from the pulse counter section () and information (M) obtained from the integrator section (). The present invention further relates to a corresponding detector element () for a detector (), an X-ray imaging device (), a method for determining a count result (K) from a detector element (), a computer program, a data carrier and a detector () for an X-ray imaging device ().