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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2011
Applicants:

Norbert Joseph Pelc, Los Altos, CA (US);

Rebecca Fahrig, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Joseph Anthony Heanue, Oakland, CA (US);

Edward Gerald Solomon, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Brian Patrick Wilfley, Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Norbert Joseph Pelc, Los Altos, CA (US);

Rebecca Fahrig, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Joseph Anthony Heanue, Oakland, CA (US);

Edward Gerald Solomon, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Brian Patrick Wilfley, Los Altos, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/02 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/12 (2013.01); A61B 6/4014 (2013.01); A61B 6/4028 (2013.01); A61N 5/1049 (2013.01); A61N 5/1067 (2013.01); A61N 5/1071 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 11/003 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4007 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); A61N 5/1065 (2013.01); A61N 5/1069 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1061 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention pertains to an apparatus and method for delivering radiation to a human patient or other mammal. A scanning electron beam x-ray source is used and the detector can be a photon counting detector. The area of the detector is less than the area of field of view in the patient. Tomosynthesis can be used to generate images and images can be produced rapidly in real time.


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