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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:
Dec. 12, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
John M Houston, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2504 / ; 250360 ; 250407 ;
Abstract
A high speed tomographic x-ray imaging system comprises an array of x-ray sources disposed opposite a closely spaced array of x-ray detectors. Small groups of sources in the array are simultaneously pulsed to provide x-ray transmission data along a number of ray paths through a body undergoing examination. X-ray energy from each source in the array is collimated to illuminate only a small sector of the detector array. High speed, unambiguous x-ray transmission information, is thereby produced.