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X-ray detector array with reduced effective pitch
Assignee: General Electric Co
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Filing: 1994-07-21
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Granted: 1996-04-23
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Expires: 2014-07-21
Abstract
Abstract Image artifacts are reduced in a volumetric CT scanner system by decreasing the detector pitch along one or both dimensions of a 2D detector array. Four different embodiments for reducing detector pitch without reducing the size of each detector element are disclosed.
Inventors
- 👤 Hui Hu
- 👤 Stanley Fox
- 👤 Thomas L. Toth
- 👤 Thaddeus Ulijasz
- 👤 Armin H. Pfoh
Bibliographic Details
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US
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2026-11-09 05:27
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01N; G01N23/00; G01N23/02; G01N23/04; G01N23/046; A; A61; A61B; A61B6/00; A61B6/02; A61B6/03; A61B6/032; A61B6/40; A61B6/4064; A61B6/4085; G01T; G01T1/00; G01T1/16; G01T1/24; G01T1/249; G01N2223/00; G01N2223/40; G01N2223/419; G01N2223/60; G01N2223/612
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim
91 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system which produces a cone beam of x-rays, which comprises: a plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged in a two-dimensional array to simultaneously sense the x-rays in the cone beam and produce corresponding electrical signals, with the centers of the detector elements aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
91 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system which produces a cone beam of x-rays, which comprises: a plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged in a two-dimensional array to simultaneously sense the x-rays in the cone beam and produce corresponding electrical signals, with the centers of the detector elements aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
The detector array as recited in claim 1 in which the detector elements are rectangular-shaped and the alternate columns of detector elements are translated to stagger the centers of the detector elements therein.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
94 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system, which comprises: plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged with their centers aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns; in which the detector elements are square-shaped and their centers are also aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of rows that are perpendicular to the columns.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
94 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system, which comprises: plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged with their centers aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns; in which the detector elements are square-shaped and their centers are also aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of rows that are perpendicular to the columns.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
85 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system, which comprises: a plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged with their centers aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns; in which the detector elements are parallelogram-shaped and the centers of detector elements in alternate columns are staggered by skewing the detector elements.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
85 words
A detector array for an x-ray volumetric CT system, which comprises: a plurality of quadrilateral-shaped detector elements arranged with their centers aligned along a plurality of adjacent straight lines to form a corresponding plurality of columns, and with the detector elements in alternate columns being positioned such that their centers are staggered midway between the centers of detector elements in adjacent columns; in which the detector elements are parallelogram-shaped and the centers of detector elements in alternate columns are staggered by skewing the detector elements.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
The detector array as recited in claim 4 in which all boundaries that define the shape of each detector element in the detector array lie along one of a plurality of straight lines that extend to an edge of the detector array.
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