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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2015
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Chang Lyong Kim, Brookfield, WI (US);
William Todd Peterson, Sussex, WI (US);
Vi-Hoa Tran, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Sean Michael Bacon, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/24 (2006.01); G01T 7/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 7/005 (2013.01); G01T 1/1647 (2013.01); G01T 1/2018 (2013.01); G01T 1/248 (2013.01); G01T 1/249 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for performing cathode calibration in a detector assembly. In one embodiment, a method comprises adjusting a cathode bias of a detector based on a total number of events occurring in the detector during a time period while maintaining an anode bias at a desired value, the events corresponding to photon energy detected by the detector. In this way, an automated cathode calibration procedure may be applied to calibrate the detector assembly.