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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2013
Applicants:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;

Inventors:

Alan Karr, Port Barrington, IL (US);

Yu Zou, Naperville, IL (US);

Yuexing Zhang, Naperville, IL (US);

Hiroaki Miyazaki, Otawara, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/467 (2013.01);
Abstract

A control circuit for a computer-aided tomography (CT) system includes an input that receives a master timing signal and an input that receives a first timing signal. The control circuit includes a mode detection circuit that determines the scan mode of the CT system based on the master timing signal and a first timing signal, where the frequency of the first time signal is lower than the frequency of the master timing signal. The control circuit also includes a circuit that generates a second timing signal based on the master timing signal and the scan mode, where the second timing signal that has a lower frequency than the master timing frequency but a higher frequency than the frequency of the first timing signal.


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