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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 6/08 (2013.01); A61B 6/40 (2013.01); A61B 6/4417 (2013.01); A61B 6/4464 (2013.01); A61B 6/461 (2013.01); A61B 6/465 (2013.01); A61B 6/467 (2013.01); A61B 6/5211 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/588 (2013.01); A61B 6/589 (2013.01);
Abstract
An X-ray apparatus including an X-ray source configured to radiate X-rays; a collimator configured to adjust an irradiation region of X-rays radiated from the X-ray source; an image acquirer configured to acquire an image by imaging an object; and a controller configured to detect, in the image, a marker projected on the object by the collimator, and to determine a source to object distance (SOD) based on a location of the marker in the image, wherein the SOD comprises a distance between the X-ray source and the object.