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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Applicant:
Matthias Seufert, Pettstadt, DE;
Inventor:
Matthias Seufert, Pettstadt, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To enlarge the angle range to be covered, with a simultaneously smaller variance of the focal spots, in a gantry for a computed tomography at least two x-ray tubes are provided for generation of an x-ray beam instead of a single x-ray tube. The respective x-ray beams of the x-ray tubes cover a defined examination region and a defined region of the detector device in the axial direction of the gantry substantially without overlapping with one another.