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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Yun Zou, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Floribertus P. M. Heukensfeldt Jansen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);
Fengfeng Tao, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Timothy Powers, Harvard, IL (US);
Thomas Edmund Sjoberg, Waukesha, WI (US);
Yun Zou, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Floribertus P. M. Heukensfeldt Jansen, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);
Fengfeng Tao, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Timothy Powers, Harvard, IL (US);
Thomas Edmund Sjoberg, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A motion correction system and method for motion correction for an x-ray tube is presented. One embodiment of the motion correction system includes a sensing unit coupled to an x-ray tube to determine a distance with which an impingement location of an electron beam generated by the x-ray tube deviates from a determined location due to motion of the x-ray tube. The motion correction system further includes a control unit coupled to the sensing unit to generate a control signal corresponding to the distance with which the impingement location of the electron beam deviates. Also, the motion correction system includes a deflection unit coupled to the control unit to steer the electron beam to the determined location based on the generated control signal.