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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2007
Jerome Stephen Arenson, Haifa, IL;
David Ruimi, Netanya, IL;
Oded Meirav, Haifa, IL;
Robert Harry Armstrong, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jerome Stephen Arenson, Haifa, IL;
David Ruimi, Netanya, IL;
Oded Meirav, Haifa, IL;
Robert Harry Armstrong, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to an x-ray flux management device that adaptively attenuates an x-ray beam to limit the incident flux reaching a subject and radiographic detectors in potentially high-flux areas while not affecting the incident flux and detector measurements in low-flux regions. While the invention is particularly well-suited for CT, the invention is also applicable with other x-ray imaging systems. In addition to reducing the required detector system dynamic range, the present invention provides an added advantage of reducing radiation dose.