Collimator of a scanning system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10799190-B2
Application number	US-201615772068-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2016
Priority date	Oct 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 13, 2020
Grant date	Oct 13, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a collimator. The collimator includes a slice module, a filter module, and a support and protection module. The slice module and the filter module are detachably connected with the support and protection module. The rays strike on the collimator and pass through the slice module and the filter module in order. The slice module is configured to adjust the fan-beam width of the rays striking on the collimator. The filter module is configured to make the rays pass through different filters to implement different types of scanning.

First claim

We claim:

1. A collimator comprising:
a support and protection module having a box structure, the box structure having a top opening and a side opening;
a filter module configured to be placed into and pulled from the box structure from the side opening of the box structure, wherein the filter module comprises:
a filter replacing unit, the filter replacing unit comprises a filter holder, a filter mounting plate, and one or more first filters, wherein the one or more first filters are mounted on the filter mounting plate via the filter holder; and
a filter floating base, wherein the filter replacing unit is detachably mounted on the filter floating base; and

a slice module configured to be mounted on the box structure from the top opening and close the top opening, wherein the filter module and the slice module are detachably connected with the support and protection module.

2. The collimator of claim 1 , wherein the filter floating base comprises an optical guide shaft, a linear bearing, a base, and one or more second filters, wherein the linear bearing and the one or more second filters are placed on the base, the optical guide shaft is located in the linear bearing, and the optical guide shaft is capable of rotating and driving the base to move along an axial direction of the optical guide shaft.

3. The collimator of claim 2 , wherein
a count of the one or more first filters is the same as a count of the one or more second filters, and
the one or more first filters and the one or more second filters are of a same type, and are arranged in one-to-one correspondence.

4. The collimator of claim 2 , wherein the one or more first filters and the one or more second filters are butterfly filters or plate filters.

5. The collimator of claim 2 , wherein the one or more first filters and the one or more second filters are arranged along the axial direction of the optical guide shaft.

6. The collimator of claim 1 , wherein the slice module comprises:
two slice plates, an opening being formed between the two slice plates;
an actuator configured to control movement of the two slice plates, the size of the opening being adjustable by moving the two slice plates; and
a support on which the two slice plates and the actuator after being assembled are placed.

7. The collimator of claim 6 , wherein the support includes a plate with a hollow part, and the hollow part of the support is positioned corresponding to the opening.

8. The collimator of claim 1 , wherein the slice module comprises:
a drum that is capable of rotating around an axis thereof, a lateral surface of the drum having a through hole to allow rays to pass through.

9. The collimator of claim 8 , the slice module further comprising a slice plate with an opening, the slice plate being placed on an external side of the drum, wherein the rays pass through the opening and the through hole and exit from a side of the drum opposite to the opening.

10. The collimator of claim 9 , wherein the opening has a shape of a stripe, a rectangle, or an oval.

11. The collimator of claim 9 , wherein the slice plate is a flat plate and the through hole extends in a direction perpendicular to a plane formed by the slice plate.

12. The collimator of claim 8 , wherein the slice module comprises multiple slice plates with openings, the drum has multiple through holes, and positions of the multiple through holes do not overlap with each other.

13. The collimator of claim 12 , wherein
the drum is a polygonal cylinder, a lateral surface of the drum comprises multiple faces forming pairs each of which are opposite to each other,
two opposite faces of the multiple faces form a face pair,
a count of the through holes, a count of slice plates, and a count of the face pairs are the same,
each slice plate of the multiple slice plates is mounted on one face of each face pair, and
each through hole connects two faces of each face pair.

14. The collimator of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first filters are arranged side by side along a direction in which the filter floating base is placed into and pulled from the box structure.

Assignees

• Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Guanghui
• Xu Tian
• Ye Ting
• Jiang Huaifang

Classifications

• A61B6/06 Primary

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• A61B6/032 Primary

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• A61B6/027

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• G21K1/04

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