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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:
Nov. 03, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2012
Applicant:

Ronald B. Sharpless, Cleveland, OH (US);

Inventor:

Ronald B. Sharpless, Cleveland, OH (US);

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5294 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 6/545 (2013.01); A61B 6/547 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging system () includes a stationary gantry (), a rotating gantry (), a radiation source (), and a detector array (). The detector array detects radiation for a plurality of integration periods during a rotating gantry revolution, the plurality of integration periods corresponds to different angular position ranges, and the detector array generates a signal indicative of the detected radiation respectively for the plurality of integration periods. The system further includes an integration period controller () that generates an integration period timing signal that includes timing for a start of each of the integration periods for a revolution of the rotating gantry based at least on a time duration of a previous revolution of the rotating gantry around the examination region, wherein the integration timing signal is used trigger the plurality of integration periods.


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