Method and circuit for correcting count rate losses of radiation

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ABSTRACT:
Radiation events of a radiation detector which are subject to deadtime losses during the acquisition time are detected as event triggers. For each detected radiation event a deadtime signal is provided. The acquisition time is subdivided into a succession of evaluation time intervals and the fractional amount of deadtime is measured within each evaluation time interval to obtain a measure for count rate losses. From the fractional amount of deadtime a replication probability is evaluated and dependent thereon all radiation events detected between the end of one evaluation time and the end of a following one are evaluated to generate (a) one pulse for each detected radiation event; and (b) a sequence of a number of pulses for randomly selected events.

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