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X-ray scanner & detector signal processing system

US4788704A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 17, 1987
Grant dateNov 29, 1988
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Expiry dateNov 17, 2007

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01V5/20
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An X-ray device for scanning objects moving on a conveyor path and for processing the detector signals acquired by the scan has a comparator for identifying faulty signals, the comparator being in a control chain for an image storage memory such that, in the event of a faulty detector signal, the contents of a memory row preceding the faulty detector signal are transferred into the memory row into which the faulty detector signal, if a correct signal, would have been stored. The system also includes a correction element for generating a reference signal at 100% radiation intensity in which the mean value of a number of measured signals is formed. The system also includes an element for reducing the amplitude of the useful signal during measurement in comparison to the amplitude allocated to a radiation intensity of 100%.

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