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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
May. 19, 2006
Yuan Xu, Eugene, OR (US);
Oleg Tischenko, München, DE;
Christoph Hoeschen, Hebertshausen, DE;
Abstract
An imaging method for imaging a region of investigation of an object, comprises the step of irradiating the region of investigation with at least one energy input beam along a plurality of projection directions, wherein the at least one energy input beam comprises a plurality of individual energy input beam components, wherein the energy input beam is shaped such that at least two of the energy input beam components have different cross-sections and groups of parallel energy input beam components being parallel to one of the projection directions provide a continuous irradiation of the region of investigation. Furthermore, a device for imaging the object is described.