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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2019
Applicant:

Fei Company, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Inventors:

Glenn Myers, Waramanga, AU;

Shane Latham, Griffith, AU;

Adrian Sheppard, Fisher, AU;

Olaf Delgado-Friedrichs, Turner, AU;

Andrew Kingston, Kambah, AU;

Assignee:

FEI Company, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/17 (2006.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06T 7/571 (2017.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/17 (2013.01); G01N 21/8851 (2013.01); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06T 7/571 (2017.01); G01N 2021/1765 (2013.01); G01N 2021/1787 (2013.01); G01N 2201/11 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30241 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses and methods for implementing scanning trajectories for ROI tomography are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining a first focus object distance based on a circumradius of a sample, the sample including a region of interest, determining a second focus object distance based on a radius of a smallest cylinder that contains the region of interest, determining a plurality of viewing angles from a plurality of possible viewing angles in response to the first focus object distance, where each viewing angle of the plurality of viewing angles has an associated focus object distance measured from the region of interest, and where the associated focus object distance of each of the plurality of viewing angles is less than the first focus object distance and greater than the second focus object distance, and scanning the region of interest using at least the plurality of viewing angles.


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