System, method, and computer accessible medium for modulating X-ray beam intensity
AssigneesNew York University, The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.
InventorsDaniel K. Sodickson, Aaron Sodickson, Ricardo Otazo
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Abstract
An imaging system for imaging a portion(s) of an anatomical structure can be provided. For example, an x-ray source first arrangement can provide x-ray radiation, and a multi-hole collimator second arrangement can be provided in a path of the x-ray radiation, and can be configured to undersample the radiation beam which can be forwarded to the portion(s) of the anatomical structure. A third hardware arrangement can be configured to receive a further x-ray radiation from the portion(s) that can be based on the undersampled x-ray radiation.
Claims19
A method for generating at least one image of at least one portion of an anatomical structure, comprising:
- providing a multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner that comprises an x-ray source arrangement and a radiation receiving arrangement;
- incoherently interrupting an x-ray radiation beam provided by the x-ray source arrangement that is directed at the at least one portion to generate a resultant x-ray radiation beam having a particular undersampled pattern;
- receiving, at the radiation receiving arrangement, the resultant x-ray radiation beam provided from the at least one portion;
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- generating the at least one image of the at least one portion based on the resultant x-ray radiation beam received at the radiation receiving arrangement.
The method of clam 6, wherein the particular undersampled pattern is different at adjacent angles of the gantry bore.
An imaging system, comprising:
- a multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner including an x-ray source first arrangement which provides an x-ray radiation beam;
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- a collimating second arrangement configured to incoherently interrupt the x-ray radiation beam provided by the x-ray source first arrangement to generate a resultant x-ray radiation beam having a particular undersampled pattern, which is forwarded to at least one portion of an anatomical structure;
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- a third hardware arrangement configured to receive a further x-ray radiation beam from the at least one portion that is based on the resultant x-ray radiation beam, wherein the third hardware arrangement is included in the multi-slice CT scanner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.