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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Thomas Koehler, Hamburg, DE;
Franz Pfeiffer, Unterföhring, DE;
Peter Benjamin Theodor Noel, Unterföhring, DE;
Dieter Richard Hahn, Memmelsdorf, DE;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 13/05 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/046 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/035 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4233 (2013.01); A61B 6/4291 (2013.01); A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/465 (2013.01); A61B 6/467 (2013.01); A61B 6/484 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); G01N 23/046 (2013.01); G01N 2223/419 (2013.01);
Abstract
Radiation source and detector arrangement for a differential phase contrast CT scanner, in which the detector tiles are placed asymmetrically such that direct rays, which hit gaps between tiles are sampled by tile centers for the complementary rays. This may provide for good image quality without any approximate processing.