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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Baojun LI, Waukesha, WI (US);
Renuka Uppaluri, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Carson Hale Thomas, Brookfield, WI (US);
Gerald Paul Schulte, Onocomowoc, WI (US);
Gopal B. Avinash, New Berlin, WI (US);
Rowland F. Saunders, Hartland, WI (US);
Tammy M. Merisotis, Surfside Beach, SC (US);
Baojun Li, Waukesha, WI (US);
Renuka Uppaluri, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Carson Hale Thomas, Brookfield, WI (US);
Gerald Paul Schulte, Onocomowoc, WI (US);
Gopal B. Avinash, New Berlin, WI (US);
Rowland F. Saunders, Hartland, WI (US);
Tammy M. Merisotis, Surfside Beach, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The presently described technology provides a tomosynthesis imaging system that comprises an x-ray tube and an anti-scatter grid. The x-ray tube is configured to emit x-rays from a plurality of positions during movement of the x-ray tube along a long axis of a mobile patient surface. The anti-scatter grid is configured to filter out scattered x-rays and includes a grid line parallel to the long axis of the mobile patient surface. The x-rays emitted from the plurality of positions are reconstructed into at least one image of at least one plane of a patient anatomy. The described technology is useful in emergency or trauma applications where a patient may be quickly and easily moved on a mobile patient surface to a position near an x-ray detector used in combination with the x-ray tube and anti-scatter grid.