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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Joseph Bendahan, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter I Garms, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Bendahan, San Jose, CA (US);
Walter I Garms, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
GE Homeland Protection, Inc., Newark, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A high speed computed tomography x-ray scanner using a plurality of x-ray generators. Each x-ray generator is scanned along a source path that is a segment of the scanner's source path such that each point in the source path is scanned by at least one tube. X-ray generators and detectors can be arranged in different scan planes depending on the available hardware so that a complete and near planar scan of a moving object can be assembled and reconstructed into an image of the object.