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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:
Jan. 27, 1987
Filed:
May. 14, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Godfrey N Hounsfield, Newark, GB;
Assignee:
EMI Limited, Hayes, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378 11 ; 378-4 ; 378-9 ; 378 14 ; 378 18 ; 378 19 ; 378 20 ; 378901 ; 358111 ; 364414 ;
Abstract
Disclosed are x-ray machines using fan-beams of x-rays to examine sectional slices of patients and to form detailed x-ray pictures of such slices, and methods of so examining patient slices. A source of a fan-beam of x-radiation, and a system detecting the radiation after it passes through a slice of the patient, rotate around the patient.