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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Steffen Kappler, Effeltrich, DE;
Martin Spahn, Erlangen, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for operating a counting digital X-ray image detector. Each pixel element and/or each pixel cluster is embodied as switchable between a first counting mode and a second counting mode that is different from the first. An at least first count of the number and/or energy of the events in an at least first time interval is performed for each pixel element or each pixel cluster in the first counting mode. An evaluation of the at least first count of the number and/or energy of the events is performed in an evaluation unit of the X-ray image detector. A switchover to the second counting mode is performed as a function of the number and/or energy of the events, and a second count of the number and/or energy of events counted within an at least second time interval is performed in the chosen second counting mode.