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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2005
Applicant:
Onno Wink, Denver, CO (US);
Inventor:
Onno Wink, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 23/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A control processor () causes the drives () of a mechanical arm scanner to move an x-ray source () and a detector along an elliptical trajectory (). The trajectory can be customized () to deviate from a true mathematical ellipse or to be only an arc segment. As the x-ray source and detector move along the trajectory, a large multiplicity of projection images are generated, at least when a contrast agent is present in the region-of-interest. A selectable limited subset of the generated projection images are selected for display in order to make an angiographic diagnosis.