X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Electronic circuit – With display or signaling
Patent
1994-04-19
1995-10-24
Church, Craig E.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Electronic circuit
With display or signaling
378 983, H05G 164
Patent
active
054616581
ABSTRACT:
An x-ray examination apparatus is provided with an auxiliary light-detection system for performing brightness control of a visible image produced on the exit screen of the x-ray image intensifier. The auxiliary light-detection system includes a photosensor having a wide dynamic range and a photodetector having a multitude of photosensitive elements so as to provide spatial resolving power. In particular the photodetector is a charge-coupled device (CCD-detector) having an inherently limited dynamic range. Brightness-control, notably avoiding overexposure in certain regions, is carried out by assembling relevant pixel-values of parts of the image into a control signal. The sensitivity of the CCD-sensor is adjusted by employing of the signal of the photosensor and a sensitivity-control device. Therefore, the sensitivity of the light-detection system is made to match the dynamic range of images due to a collection of x-ray exposures. In order to obtain a control signal that is optimized to relevant pans of the visible image and being independent of average brightness over the entire area of an image, the signal produced by the CCD-detector, that is reciprocal to the average brightness, is multiplied by the signal of the photosensor, that is proportional to the average brightness.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4809309 (1989-02-01), Beekmans
patent: 5164583 (1992-11-01), Aichinger
Church Craig E.
Slobod Jack D.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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