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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Ucl Business Ltd, London, GB;
Inventors:
Charlotte Hagen, London, GB;
Fabio Alessio Vittoria, London, GB;
Marco Endrizzi, London, GB;
Alessandro Olivo, New Barnet, GB;
Assignee:
UCL Business Ltd, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/027 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4064 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/4291 (2013.01); A61B 6/484 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computed tomography method seeking higher resolutions without imposing a dose increase is described. A mask () forms a plurality of X-ray beam lets () which are passed through a subject (), and images are captured on X-ray detector (). The subject () is moved with respect to the X-ray detector and mask, including a rotation around a y axis, and a computed tomography image is reconstructed from the plurality of measured datapoints. The beam lets () are of small size. FIGS.-are blurred, FIGS.andcontain too small letters/numbers.