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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2014
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Adam Clark Nathan, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/16 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01T 1/161 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/1615 (2013.01); A61B 6/4275 (2013.01); A61B 6/4411 (2013.01); A61B 6/4417 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0443 (2013.01); G01N 2223/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus is described herein. The apparatus comprises a first modality unit and a second modality unit. The first modality unit is located within a gantry. The second modality unit within the gantry is moveable along an examination axis to be concentric about with the first modality unit such that a field of view of the first modality unit and a field of view of the second modality unit are centered about a single point of interest.