SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING USING DISTRIBUTED X-RAY SOURCE

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING USING DISTRIBUTED X-RAY SOURCE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved imaging system incorporating an X-ray source which is compact and/or more lightweight, reduces a rotary or translational load, and eliminates the necessity of rotation or translation in system configuration elements at once, and to provide a topology, and...

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Hauptverfasser: MANAK JOSEPH J JR, LANGAN DAVID ALLEN, EDIC PETER MICHAEL, CLAUS BERNHARD ERICH HERMANN, EBERHARD JEFFREY W, VERMILYEA MARK ERNEST, UNGER CHRISTOPHER D, MILLER JAMES VRADENBURG
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Sprache:eng
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DIAGNOSIS
GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
IRRADIATION DEVICES
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
PHYSICS
SURGERY
TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved imaging system incorporating an X-ray source which is compact and/or more lightweight, reduces a rotary or translational load, and eliminates the necessity of rotation or translation in system configuration elements at once, and to provide a topology, and a method. SOLUTION: An X-ray imaging system (10) is provided, including the distributed X-ray source (48); and a detector (20). The distributed X-ray source (48) discharges X-rays (56) from a plurality of discharge points (74) which are constituted as a substantially linear segment (72), a substantially circular arcuate segment (78), a curved segment (80), or a substantially non-planar surface (86). The detector (20) generates a plurality of signals in response to the X-rays (18) which are made incident to the detector (20). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT