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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2014
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Real Time Tomography, Llc, Villanova, PA (US);
Andrew D. A. Maidment, Villanova, PA (US);
Brian Lee, Rockville, MD (US);
Susan Ng, Villanova, PA (US);
Peter A. Ringer, Allentown, PA (US);
Johnny Kuo, Lancaster, PA (US);
Raymond J. Acciavatti, Newtown Square, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Real Time Tomography, LLC, Villanova, PA (US);
Abstract
A contrast-enhanced digital tomosynthesis system with a source configured to emit penetrating particles toward an object, a detector configured to acquire a series of projection images of the object in response to the penetrating particles from the source, a positioning apparatus configured to position the source relative to the object and the detector, and an imaging system coupled to the source, the detector, and the positioning apparatus. The imaging system is configured to control the positioning apparatus to position the source and detector relative to the object, control the source and the detector to acquire the series of projection images, and construct a tomographic volume capable of exhibiting super-resolution morphology and contrast-enhancement arising from injection of an exogenous contrast agent from data representing the acquired series of projection images or a subset thereof.