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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Roger Steadman Booker, Aachen, DE;
Randall Peter Luhta, Chardon, OH (US);
Christoph Herrmann, Aachen, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An imaging system () includes a detector array () with direct conversion detector pixels that detect radiation traversing an examination region of the imaging system and generate a signal indicative of the detected radiation, a pulse shaper () configured to alternatively process the signal indicative of detected radiation generated by the detector array or a set of test pulses having different and known heights that correspond to different and known energy levels and to generate output pulses having heights indicative of the energy of the processed detected radiation or set of test pulses, and a thresholds adjuster () configured to analyze the heights of the output pulses corresponding to the set of test pulses in connection with the heights of set of test pulses and a set of predetermined fixed energy thresholds and generate a threshold adjustment signal indicative of a baseline based on a result of the analysis.