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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Mark Kenneth Limkeman, Brookfield, WI (US);
Alexander Ganin, Whitefish Bay, WI (US);
Charles William Stearns, New Berlin, WI (US);
David Leo McDaniel, Dousman, WI (US);
Robert Franklin Senzig, Germantown, WI (US);
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
A combined emission-transmission imaging apparatus, the apparatus comprising oppositely facing first and second photon detector segments disposed on opposite sides of an imaging area and defining the imaging area there between and a radiation source disposed adjacent and outside the imaging area and adjacent at least one of the detector segments, the source generating a fan beam of radiation that emanates from a focal point and juxtaposed such that the fan beam is directed along a trajectory through the imaging area and toward the other of the detector segments, wherein the segments collect both emission and transmission radiation.