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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2014
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Dominik Benjamin Kutra, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Buelow, Grosshansdorf, DE;
Gerhard Martens, Henstedt-Ulzburg, DE;
Hanns-Ingo Maack, Norderstedt, DE;
Kirsten Regina Meetz, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 35/14 (2006.01); H05G 1/30 (2006.01); G21K 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/30 (2013.01); G21K 1/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
X-ray apparatus, with a collimator arrangement () positioned between the focus point () and the detector (), mechanics () for enabling motion of the collimator arrangement, the detector and the x-ray source along a scan trajectory () in a x-z plane () and also along curved scan trajectory (), which partly extents along a y-axis () perpendicular to the x-z plane. By using this invention better tissue coverage of objects with curved edges can be obtained.