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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:
Sep. 02, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas R McBride, Chardon, OH (US);
Robert H Wake, Warrensville Heights, OH (US);
Robert H McCarthy, Willowick, OH (US);
Assignee:
Ohio Nuclear, Inc., Solon, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2504 / ; 250369 ; 250388 ;
Abstract
A CT scanner has an outer circular array of stationary radiation detectors for an inner concentrically revolving source of radiation emitted in a fan pattern subtending a number of the detectors. A number of analog signal processing channels equal to the maximum number of subtended detectors at any given time is automatically connected via switching circuitry to receive the outputs of only the detectors within the fan pattern.