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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:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/04 ;
Abstract
The shutters ( ) in an X-ray device which include at least a radiation source ( ), a diaphragm device ( ) with shutters ( ) and a recording ( ) and image processing unit ( ), are provided with hole and/or edge patterns ( ) which reproduce non-anatomical patterns in the radiation image; the shutter edges ( ) are detected in the radiation image in the image processing unit on the basis of such patterns, so that only the directly irradiated part of the patient is displayed.