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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2014
Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Yuxin Wang, Palatine, IL (US);
Joshua A. Sharpe, New Brighton, MN (US);
Joseph Schlecht, Edina, MN (US);
Eric Ferley, Rogers, MN (US);
Julien Noel, Puteaux, FR;
Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
An x-ray imaging system (), such as a X-ray computerized tomographic system, may acquire a series of radiographs at different detector positions along a first translation axis or a second translation axis parallel to orientation directions of detector pixels of a radiation detector (). In a first embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a linear size of the radiation detector () along the first translation axis or the second translation axis, respectively. The radiographs may be assembled into a radiograph larger than each radiograph in the series of radiographs, resulting in image stitching. In a second embodiment, the different detector positions may be separated by a distance less than a pixel size of the radiation detector (), also referred as sub-pixel shifting of the detector. The radiographs may be assembled to form a radiograph with a higher resolution than the acquired radiographs, resulting in superresolution.