Medical imaging system with a fixed array of x-ray detectors and a fixed array of x-ray emitters for producing a digital 3-dimensional image

    公开(公告)号:US11127174B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-21

    申请号:US16071624

    申请日:2016-01-25

    申请人: Adaptix Ltd

    摘要: The individual emitters are operated in multiple groups each illuminating a region of interest between the emitter array and the detector array such that the cone of radiation rays projected on the detector array from any single emitter in any one such group is substantially spatially separated from the corresponding projected cones from all other emitters in that same group. At least the ROI portion of the 3D space between the emitter panel and the detector panel is represented by 3D volume elements (voxels), wherein at least some of those voxels represent respective portions of that space that are traversed by corresponding portions of a plurality of radiation rays each extending from a respective emitter to a respective detector and are associated with respective absorption coefficients representative of the radiation absorption characteristic of a corresponding portion of the ROI. The image reconstruction process is an iterative process in which neighboring voxels having similar calculated coefficients are combined into larger voxels, neighboring voxels having dissimilar calculated coefficients are divided into smaller voxels, and new absorption coefficients are calculated.

    MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH A FIXED ARRAY OF X-RAY DETECTORS AND A FIXED ARRAY OF X-RAY EMITTERS FOR PRODUCING A DIGITAL 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20210209818A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-08

    申请号:US16071624

    申请日:2016-01-25

    申请人: Adaptix Ltd

    摘要: The individual emitters are operated in multiple groups each illuminating a region of interest between the emitter array and the detector array such that the cone of radiation rays projected on the detector array from any single emitter in any one such group is substantially spatially separated from the corresponding projected cones from all other emitters in that same group. At least the ROI of portion of the 3D space between the emitter panel and the detector panel is represented by 3D volume elements (voxels), wherein at least some of those voxels represent respective portions of that space that are traversed by corresponding portions of a plurality of radiation rays each extending from a respective emitter to a respective detector and are associated with respective absorption coefficients representative of the radiation absorption characteristic of a corresponding portion of the ROI. The image reconstruction process is an iterative process in which neighboring voxels having similar calculated coefficients are combined into larger voxels, neighboring voxels having dissimilar calculated coefficients are divided into smaller voxels, and new absorption coefficients are calculated.

    MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM HAVING AN ARRAY OF DISTRIBUTED X-RAY GENERATORS

    公开(公告)号:US20190029611A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US16072021

    申请日:2016-01-25

    申请人: Adaptix Ltd

    IPC分类号: A61B6/02 A61B6/00 A61B6/10

    摘要: The disclosed system includes an emitter array for generating x-rays, a detector array for sensing a flux of x-rays transmitted through a region of interest; apparatus for holding, moving and aligning the emitter array relative to the region of interest and the detector array; electronic means for controlling the emitters and for reading and analyzing the output from the detectors and converting it to image data, and a display for displaying and manipulating the image data. The individual emitters are operated in multiple groups each illuminating a region of interest between the emitter array and the detector array such that the cone of radiation rays projected on the detector array from any single emitter in any one such group is substantially spatially separated from the corresponding projected cones from all other emitters in that same group.

    X-RAY COLLIMATOR
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    发明申请
    X-RAY COLLIMATOR 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20170076831A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-16

    申请号:US15123610

    申请日:2015-03-05

    申请人: ADAPTIX LTD.

    IPC分类号: G21K1/02 H01J35/08 G21K1/10

    摘要: An x-ray collimator that may include a substrate containing a plurality of holes, each hole being frustoconical at one end and tubular at the other end for use in an x-ray imaging system, whereby the x-ray collimator may be aligned with a two-dimensional array of x-ray sources and a two-dimensional x-ray sensor, and whereby x-ray photons from the x-ray sources may pass through the collimator holes and emerge as a beam of x-ray photons in a narrow angle cone which may pass through a subject being imaged, positioned between the output holes of the collimator and the x-ray sensor.

    摘要翻译: 一种X射线准直器,其可以包括含有多个孔的基底,每个孔在一端是截头圆锥形的,另一端的管状用于x射线成像系统,由此x射线准直仪可以与 x射线源的二维阵列和二维x射线传感器,并且由此来自x射线源的X射线光子可以通过准直器孔并且作为x射线光子束出现在狭窄的 角锥体可以穿过被成像的被摄体,位于准直器的输出孔和x射线传感器之间。