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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Agfa Healthcare NV, Mortsel, BE;
Inventors:
Marc Cresens, Diest, BE;
Herman Van Goubergen, Antwerp, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa HealthCare N.V., Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/00 (2006.01); H05G 1/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/00 (2013.01); A61B 6/583 (2013.01); A61B 6/4216 (2013.01); A61B 6/585 (2013.01);
Abstract
Method and system for determining the spatial response signature of a x-ray detector comprising a photostimulable phosphor by generating a flat field image of the detector, generating a low-pass filtered version of the flat field image and background demodulating the flat field image by pixel-wise dividing it by means of corresponding pixel values in the low-pass filtered version.