PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756611
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "370090"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a photon counting x-ray radiation detection system. The system ( 31 ) comprises an x-ray radiation device ( 2 ) for providing polychromatic x-ray radiation ( 4 ) for traversing an examination zone ( 5 ) during a detection period of a scan. A photon counting detection device ( 6 ) comprising detection elements ( 3 ) detects the x-ray radiation after having traversed the examination zone and measures for each detection element photon counts in one or more energy bins during the detection period. A correction unit ( 12 ) estimates for each detection element an amount of a build up charge present in the detection element and corrects the measured photon counts for the detection element based on the estimated amount of the build up charge. This allows the corruption of the photon count rates caused by the build up charges to be compensated and to improve the determination of the photon counts.

Claim (Index 14):
A photon counting x-ray radiation detection method, the method comprising:\n providing polychromatic x-ray radiation for traversing an examination zone during a detection period of a scan, by an x-ray radiation device, wherein the examination zone is adapted to accommodate an object, detecting the x-ray radiation after having traversed the examination zone, by a photon counting detection device comprising detection elements, wherein the photon counting detection device measures for each detection element photon counts in one or more energy bins during the detection period, and estimating for each detection element an amount of a build up charge present in the detection element and correcting the measured photon counts for the detection element based on the estimated amount of the build up charge, by a correction unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10256
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14889899', '16300107', '14676594', '14434209', '13770829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7180604269736641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4865453674711838
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6949089210234162
- Mean Citation Score: 232.86976
- Max Citation Score: 261.20477
- Similarity Product: 225.9031437211489

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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