X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Specific application – Mammography
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
Thomas, Courtney (Department: 2882)
X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
Specific application
Mammography
C378S098800
Reexamination Certificate
active
07869564
ABSTRACT:
An X-ray machine for imaging a breast of a female patient includes a patient table for accommodating the patient, an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. In one embodiment, the X-ray machine may be designed as a spiral CT scanner having a rotatable gantry on which the X-ray tube and detector are mounted. The X-ray detector is inclined with respect to the X-ray tube, so that a central ray of a beam of rays emitted from the X-ray tube is perpendicularly incident on an active face of the detector. In one embodiment, the detector may be designed with a curvature, which reduces image artifacts by reducing path length differences between the central ray and the outer rays of the beam. This configuration provides particularly space saving X-ray machines, which at the same time, are of particularly high resolution.
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Kalender Willi
Schilling Harry
Daffer Kevin L.
Daffer McDaniel LLP
MIR Medical Imaging Research Holding GmbH
Thomas Courtney
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