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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2010
Applicants:
Chuanyong Bai, Poway, CA (US);
Richard Louis Conwell, Del Mar, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chuanyong Bai, Poway, CA (US);
Richard Louis Conwell, Del Mar, CA (US);
Assignee:
Digirad Corporation, Poway, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Two different collimation geometries are interleaved. Each collimation geometry samples a transaxial slice through the object being imaged. The even slices are of the same fan-beam geometry as the central head, but the odd slices are of different collimation geometry. Each slice covers an axial range that is the same as the pixel size of the solid-state detector, and aligns with the corresponding pixels in the axial direction.