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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2003
Applicants:

Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);

Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Abdulrahman Abdallah Al-khalidy, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Abdalmajeid Musa Alyassin, Niskayuna, NY (US);

John Kaufhold, Altamont, NY (US);

Gulnar Siddiqi, Milwaukee, WI (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);

Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Abdulrahman Abdallah Al-Khalidy, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Abdalmajeid Musa Alyassin, Niskayuna, NY (US);

John Kaufhold, Altamont, NY (US);

Gulnar Siddiqi, Milwaukee, WI (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An imaging system for scanning a volume of interest in an object, the system includes a radiation source configured to traverse in a plurality of focal spot positions yielding a plurality of focal spot trajectories. Each focal spot trajectory defines a two dimensional focal spot projection in an image acquisition plane. Each of the focal spot positions comprise at least two positions at unequal distances from the image acquisition plane.


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