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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1993
Kai Lange, Vedbaik, DK;
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
To acquire tomographs, two detectors (,) are secured together in a support structure (,) in such a manner that their detection fields are inclined relative to each other. The angle of inclination between them is preferably 90°. This pair of detectors is then placed in such a manner that the plane (,) bisecting the two detection fields includes the axis of rotation (,) around which the pair of detectors is to rotate to perform tomography on a subject. For fat subjects, the pair is moved away (,) from the axis, and for thin subjects it is moved towards it. It is shown that to avoid detector displacement interfering with tomography computation, it suffices merely to change computation parameters in the reconstruction algorithm.