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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xue Rui, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Geng Fu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jianjun Guo, Ballston Spa, NY (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Brian David Yanoff, Schenectady, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present approach relates to a detector design that allows detector-based wobble using an electronic control scheme. In one implementation, each detector pixel is divided into sub-pixels. The readout of the sub-pixels can be binned with minimal noise penalty to enable the detector wobble without physically shifting the detector or alternating the physical focal spot location, though, as discussed herein alternation of the focal spot location may be used in conjunction with the present approach to further improve radial and longitudinal imaging resolution as well as suppressing artifacts resulted by limited spatial sampling.