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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An aperture comprises blocking members and for blocking X-rays. The blocking member has: an edge formed on an arc Alying on a circumference CFof a circle with radius raround a focal spot f in an XY-plane; an edge connected to one endpoint of the edge, the edge being formed to lie on the side of the X-ray detector with respect to an arc Acontiguous to the arc A; and an edge connected to the other endpoint of the edge, the edge being formed to lie on the side of the X-ray detector with respect to an arc Acontiguous to the arc A. The blocking member has: an edge formed on an arc Alying on the circumference CFof the circle with radius raround the focal spot f in the XY-plane; an edge connected to one endpoint of the edge, the edge being formed to lie on the side of the X-ray detector with respect to an arc Acontiguous to the arc Aand an edge connected to the other endpointof the edge, the edge being formed to lie on the side of the X-ray detector with respect to an arc Acontiguous to the arc A