X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Specific application – Computerized tomography
Patent
1998-05-07
2000-05-23
Bruce, David V.
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Specific application
Computerized tomography
378 15, 378901, A61B 603
Patent
active
060673427
ABSTRACT:
A system for and method of producing digital filmless X-ray projection images having resolution and dynamic range characteristics comparable to extant photographic film-based images includes an X-ray source directing an X-ray beam through an object to be viewed toward a detector array, a drive mechanism for rotating the detector array in a plane substantially normal to the X-ray beam, and a reconstruction computer for generating an image from projection data taken from the detector array. The system generates a projection data set corresponding to each of a plurality of incremental angular positions of the detector array, and the reconstruction computer combines the data sets to form a two dimensional projection image of the object being viewed.
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Analogic Corporation
Bruce David V.
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