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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:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David M Hoffman, New Berlin, WI (US);
August O Englert, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378 19 ; 378-4 ;
Abstract
A multislice detector array producing an alterable quantity of slices and slice resolutions. In one embodiment, the detector array includes a detector housing, a plurality of detector modules, and a collimator. Each detector module includes a plurality of photodiodes arranged in an array of rows and columns, a switch apparatus electrically coupled to the photodiode output signals, and a decoder. The collimator is configured to separate X-ray beams so that only the focal X-ray beams are impinged upon the detector modules.