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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:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Omar Al Assad, Niskayuna, NY (US);

David Allen Langan, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);

Michel Francois Grimaud, Buc, FR;

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/4014 (2013.01); A61B 6/4441 (2013.01); A61B 6/482 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes, in a bi-plane interventional imaging system, moving a first C-arm supporting a first X-ray source and a first X-ray detector about first and second axes while obtaining a plurality of first X-ray attenuation data sets relating to a subject of interest; moving a second C-arm, positioned crosswise with respect to the first C-arm and supporting a second X-ray source and a second X-ray detector, about the first axis while obtaining a plurality of second X-ray attenuation data sets relating to the subject of interest; and synchronizing the movement of the first and second C-arms to avoid collision therebetween.


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