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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:
May. 12, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eiji Yoshitome, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378 985 ;
Abstract
An X-ray computerized tomography apparatus having an X-ray tube or detector constantly rotated an around an object for acquiring data during specific phase segments of the motion of the object. A period h and a phase are detected from R waves of an electrocardiogram. Searching is then done through a table to provide delay time d, measuring time e, rotating time k (being an integer not a multiple of period h), and counts n corresponding to the period h to the expression below: