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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Yannan Jin, Schenectady, NY (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Vladimir A. Lobastov, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Hewei Gao, Waukesha, WI (US);
Geng Fu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system includes an energy-discriminating, photon-counting X-ray detector, comprising a plurality of detector cells adapted to produce projection data in response to X-ray photons and to produce an electrical signal having a recorded count for the energy bins and a total energy intensity. The system also includes data processing circuitry adapted to receive the electrical signal, to generate a simulated count rate for each of the energy bins by using the total energy intensity, to determine a set of energy intensity dependent material decomposition vectors, and, for the measured projection data, to perform material decomposition.