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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:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2023
Applicant:

Orimtech Ltd., Buffalo Grove, IL (US);

Inventors:

Boris S. Goldberg, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);

Serguei Gouzeev, Discovery Bay, CA (US);

Michael G. Hellmann, Mount Sinai, NY (US);

David R. Zavagno, Solon, OH (US);

Assignee:

Orimtech, Ltd., Buffalo Grove, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2024.01); G01N 23/046 (2018.01); G01N 23/083 (2018.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/046 (2013.01); G01N 23/083 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01); G06T 11/006 (2013.01); G01N 2223/3303 (2013.01); G01N 2223/419 (2013.01); G01N 2223/616 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for X-ray computed tomography includes a robotic arm that moves an X-ray emitter around a subject in a curvilinear path and an X-ray detector that captures 2-dimensional views while the subject is scanned. Movements of the emitter and detector are coordinated such that the position and angle of the emitter relative to the detector remains substantially constant during scanning. A processor uses computed tomography to reconstruct an image of the subject from the captured 2-dimensional views. The robotic arm varies the pitch of the X-ray emitter during the scan to enhance the spatial resolution of the reconstructed image. The processor generates a projection transformation matrix based on movement of the robotic arm for each captured 2-dimensional view that is applied during reconstruction.


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