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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:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/304 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/304 ;
Abstract
A X-ray image forming method, comprising steps of: conducting a magnifying radiography by irradiating an object with divergent X-ray emitted from a X-ray tube; and forming a X-ray image by detecting X-ray passing through the object by a X-ray detector; wherein the magnifying radiography is conducted to satisfy the following formula: 9E≧B, where B is a width (&mgr;m) of a blurred portion of the X-ray image caused by penumbra and E is a width (&mgr;m) of an edge portion enhanced by X-ray refraction contrast.