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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2022
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Waukesha, WI (US);
John Howard Londt, Waukesha, WI (US);
John Boudry, Waukesha, WI (US);
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images. In one embodiment, a CT system comprises an X-ray tube and an X-ray controller including one or more processors having executable instructions stored in a non-transitory memory of the CT system that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to, during a first view of a CT scan of an object, focus an electron beam at a first focal spot on a target of the X-ray tube, the first focal spot of a first size; during a second view of the CT scan, focus the electron beam at a second focal spot on the target, the second focal spot of a second size different from the first size; and reconstruct an image of the object from projection data including the first view and the second view.