Patent ID: 7240251

Claim:
In a computed tomography device having a data acquisition unit in which measurement data are acquired and converted into a bit stream and communicated to a transmitter apparatus situated on a rotating part of the computed tomography device, the transmitter apparatus transmitting the bit stream to a stationary part of the computed tomography device, and having a receiver apparatus situated on the stationary part for receiving the bit stream from the transmitter apparatus and for communicating the bit stream to an image reconstruction unit for reconstructing an image from the bit stream, the improvement of a data transmission system comprising: a first error recognition module disposed in said transmitter apparatus and a second error recognition module disposed in said receiver apparatus, each of said first and second error recognition modules monitoring said bit stream for errors and, upon detection of an error, generating an error signal; and an error processor in communication with said first and second error recognition modules and supplied with said signals therefrom for determining a quantity selected from the group consisting of an error number, an error rate and an error duration, and for storing said quantity in a log data file for evaluation.