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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1998
Hui David He, Waukesha, WI (US);
Hui Hu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Robert F. Senzig, Germantown, WI (US);
Gary R. Strong, Waukesha, WI (US);
Guy M. Besson, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
David M. Hoffman, New Berlin, WI (US);
George E. Seidenschnur, Waukesha, WI (US);
Armin H. Pfoh, Nishayuna, NY (US);
Jonathan A. Murray, Sussex, WI (US);
Thomas L. Toth, Brookfield, WI (US);
Willi W. Hampel, St. Francis, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention is, in one aspect, an imaging system having a detector that has multiple detector cells extending along a z-axis, the detector being configured to collect multiple slices of data; and a scalable data acquisition system configured to convert signals from the detector to digital form, the scalable data acquisition system having a plurality of converter boards each with a plurality of channels, the channels and detector cells having an interweaved coupling to reduce susceptibility to band artifact.