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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21K 1/04 ;
Abstract
In order to control a collimator so that an X-ray impingement position on an X-ray detector is kept constant, an error of the impingement position of a fan-shaped beam ( ) in the direction of side-by-side arrangement of a plurality of detector element rows in a detector element array ( ) is detected ( ), and the collimator is controlled ( ) based on the detected error so that the impingement position of the fan-shaped beam is kept at a constant position.