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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Visuum, Llc, Gainesville, FL (US);
John D. Cox, Gainesville, FL (US);
James Gimlett, Coquitlam, CA;
Shaun Georges, Burnaby, CA;
David Cleaves, Port Coquitlam, CA;
Visuum, LLC, Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
A scanning transmission x-ray imaging system includes an x-ray source producing x-rays at a focal spot and moving about a source movement axis passing through the focal spot, x-ray detector arrays each detecting x-rays from the x-ray source along a detector dimension, and a collimator between the source and the arrays, fixed to the source, and defining slits to collimate the x-rays into a set of linear x-ray beams. The arrays are spaced from the source such that the linear x-ray beam at each of the arrays has the linear x-ray beam substantially impact within a height and width of a respective one of the arrays. The arrays move correspondingly with the source such that each of the linear x-ray beams remain aligned with a respective one of the arrays.