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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2005
Applicant:
Tong Liu, Singapore, SG;
Inventor:
Tong Liu, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Agency For Science, Technology and Research, Centros, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computed tomography system having a fixed X-ray source [for producing a fan beam [, a fixed digital detector [and a manipulator [for holding and rotating an object [to be inspected. Left and right projections of the rotated object on the fixed digital detector are used to determine a central ray, reconstruction of an image of the object being based on the central ray position. A corresponding method and apparatus are also disclosed.