An apparatus for use with a detector system including a solid state flat panel
detector and an image processor, the detector including a plurality of pixels,
each pixel generating an initial intensity signal, the initial signals together
defining an initial image, the processor storing an initial bad pixel map that
includes a known bad pixel set, after signals are generated, the processor automatically
using intensity signals corresponding to other than the bad pixel set to generate
replacement intensity signals for each of the bad pixel set pixels thereby generating
a corrected image, the apparatus for identifying additional bad pixels, the apparatus
comprising a processor that, after the image data is collected, examines at least
one of the initial image and the corrected image to identify a likely additional
bad pixel set including pixels that have unexpected values and an interface for
indicating the likely bad set to a system user.
