Diffractive analyzer of patient tissue
AssigneeArion Diagnostics, Inc.
InventorsAlexander P. Lazarev, Pavel I. Lazarev, Delvin Tai Wai Yuk
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Abstract
An x-ray diffractometer may perform 3D-analysis of collagen tissue of a patient (a human or another animal). The diffractometer includes an oblong housing that may be hinged and that contains an x-ray projector on one side of a recess and a receiver on an opposite side of the recess. The recess accommodates analyzed tissue such as the external ear and skin of a patient. The x-ray projector directs an x-ray micro-beam at the patient's tissue, and the receiver contains a movable two-dimensional x-ray detector that detects a transmitted x-ray micro-beam passed through the analyzed tissue and detects x-rays scattered or diffracted by the analyzed tissue.
Claims18
A diffractometer system comprising:
- a housing including a source portion and a receiver portion with a recess between the source portion and the receiver portion, the recess accommodating patient tissue to be analyzed;
- an x-ray projector in the source portion and projecting an x-ray beam into the recess;
- an x-ray receiver in the receiver portion, the x-ray receiver including an array of x-ray sensors positioned to detect x-rays from the x-ray beam that are transmitted undeflected through the recess and x-rays from the x-ray beam that the patient tissue in the recess scatters;
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- one or more telescoping structures on at least one of the source portion and the receiver portion, each of the telescoping structures extending to and fixing the patient tissue in place during an x-ray examination process.
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