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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Ewald Roessl, Ellerau, DE;
Stewart Young, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01N 23/04 (2018.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4014 (2013.01); A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/40 (2013.01); A61B 6/4007 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/545 (2013.01); G01N 23/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a modulation of X-ray radiation for the purposes of imaging an object of interest. For the modulation, the X-ray radiation provided by an X-ray source () is in part totally reflected by a mirror (). Thus, an X-ray radiation at an object receiving space () is formed by an unreflected X-ray radiation () and a reflected X-ray radiation (). The mirror () is displaceable by an actuator (), such that the intensity of the reflected X-ray radiation () can be adjusted, in particular to a density of the object to be imaged.