Rotatable drum assembly for radiology imaging modalities

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9044152-B2
Application number	US-201213440432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 5, 2012
Priority date	Apr 5, 2012
Publication date	Jun 2, 2015
Grant date	Jun 2, 2015

Abstract

Among other things, a rotatable drum for a radiology imaging modality is provided herein. The rotatable drum comprises a bore, defined by an inner circumference of a sidewall of the rotatable drum. In one embodiment, the sidewall comprises one or more apertures through which radiation may pass. By way of example, a radiation source and a detector array may be mounted outside of the bore (e.g., on an outside surface of the sidewall) and apertures in the sidewall may permit radiation to pass from the radiation source to the detector array without being attenuated by the sidewall of the drum. In another embodiment, the detector array may be comprised of a plurality of detector modules that may be individually mounted/dismounted from the rotatable drum, and in one example, may provide structural support to the rotatable drum.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computed tomography (CT) imaging modality, comprising:
a rotatable drum assembly configured for rotation about an object and comprising:
a drum defining a bore within which the object is positioned during an examination; and
a structure that protrudes from the drum, the structure defining a channel within the rotatable drum assembly;

an ionizing radiation source configured to emit ionizing radiation towards the object during the examination, the ion…

Assignees

• Abenaim Daniel
• Swain Ronald E
• Analogic Corp

Inventors

• Abenaim Daniel
• Swain Ronald E

Classifications

• A61B6/035 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• G01N23/046 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01N2223/419

  Physics · mapped topic