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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2007
Applicant:
John F. Moore, Libertyville, IL (US);
Inventor:
John F. Moore, Libertyville, IL (US);
Assignee:
Varian Medical Systems Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01N 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A first X-ray detector () is positioned to detect at least the X-rays that intersect the center of rotation () for an object () with respect to an X-ray source (). A second X-ray detector () is then positioned to detect X-rays that do not overlap with the X-rays as are detected by the first X-ray detector as well as X-rays () that intersect a periphery of a circle () that circumscribes an outer extreme boundary () of the object to be scanned.