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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:
Jul. 18, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric G Hawman, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Gammasonics, Inc., Des Plaines, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
25036302 ; 25036310 ; 378-4 ;
Abstract
A collimator is in the shape of a closed curve and has one and only one focal point. The collimator is dimensioned such that, in use, the focal point may be positioned inside the body organ to be imaged. The focal point is caused to densely trace over the body organ of interest to form a tomographic image in less time, without imaging the rest of the body slice.