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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2007
Filed:
May. 03, 2005
Applicants:
J. Joseph Allred, Centerville, UT (US);
Steven E. Curtis, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Dimitri Yatsenko, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Inventors:
J. Joseph Allred, Centerville, UT (US);
Steven E. Curtis, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Dimitri Yatsenko, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/64 (2006.01); H05G 1/44 (2006.01); H05G 1/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for controlling exposure for medical imaging devices is provided. The method includes varying the exposure level of X-rays within an X-ray imaging system to generate a plurality of images having different exposure levels and combining the plurality of images in an additive process to form a single X-ray image.