Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Sanjay Dyavaiah Patil

Saiesh Suryakant Raiker

Mahendra Madhukar Patil

Manish Uddhaorao Choudhary

Vishwanath Nayak

Bala Kumar Chinnaiyan

Vishwanath Nayak K

G Ramachandra

Imaging apparatus

A pre-patient collimator for a CT imaging system is provided. The pre-patient collimator includes a collimator housing including a plurality of walls, wherein the plurality of walls includes a first wall configured to face an X-ray source when the pre-patient collimator is coupled to the CT imaging system and a second wall and a third wall flanking the first wall. The pre-patient collimator also includes a bowtie filter assembly disposed within the collimator housing and including a bowtie filter. The pre-patient collimator further includes an adjustment mechanism configured to move the bowtie filter assembly in a lateral direction between the second wall and the third wall within the collimator housing.

Pre-patient collimator having a built-in alignment mechanism

A pre-patient collimator for a CT imaging system is provided. The pre-patient collimator includes an additively manufactured housing having a plurality of walls having a variable thickness along each wall of the plurality of walls. The pre-patient collimator also includes an additively manufactured aperture carrier plate having variable thickness and a plurality of apertures configured to determine a size of an X-ray beam received from an X-ray source of the CT imaging system.

Pre-patient collimator having a self-shielding design and additively manufactured components

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Bengaluru, India

Sanjay Dyavaiah Patil