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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2020
Applicant:
Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Inventors:
Arundhuti Ganguly, San Jose, CA (US);
Ivan P Mollov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Varex Imaging Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/34 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4042 (2013.01); A61B 6/4035 (2013.01); A61B 6/482 (2013.01); G01T 1/2006 (2013.01); G01T 1/2014 (2013.01); G01T 1/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments include an x-ray system, comprising: an x-ray imager including a plurality of imaging layers; an x-ray source configured to generate an x-ray beam; and an x-ray prefilter; wherein: the x-ray prefilter is configured to adjust an energy spectrum of the x-ray beam to create or decrease a level of x-ray fluence of a local minimum between two of a plurality of local maximums.