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US 12,728,050 B2Granted
Medical vehicles, CT devices, and driving methods thereof
OwnerMakoto Shizukuishiinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a computed tomographic system (CT) including a CT gantry having an inner peripheral, and a subject window in a surface of the vehicle. The subject window is configured to be exposed to an exterior of the vehicle via a side face of the vehicle, such that the subject window is configured to enable a subject to enter or exit from the inner peripheral of the CT gantry in a body axis direction of the CT.
Claims20
A computer tomographic (CT) system, comprising:
- a rotating part having a light source and a rotational central axis;
- a fixed part surrounding the rotating part;
- and
- a detector array including a plurality of CMOS sensor units, wherein the plurality of CMOS sensor units are
- arranged inside the rotating part in an arc shape viewed from the rotational central axis, or
- arranged along an entire inner circumference of the fixed part surrounding the rotational central axis,
- wherein each CMOS sensor unit of the plurality of CMOS sensor units has a vertical scanning circuit and horizontal scanning and signal readout circuits arranged along at least one side of a rectangular light receiving region, the rectangular light receiving region including a plurality of pixels arranged vertically and horizontally, and a longitudinal direction of the vertical scanning circuit is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the horizontal scanning and signal readout circuits, and
- wherein each of the longitudinal direction of the vertical scanning circuit and the longitudinal direction of the horizontal scanning and signal readout circuits is perpendicular to the rotational central axis.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- an imaging apparatus, the imaging apparatus including an imaging gantry having an inner peripheral;
- and
- a subject window in a surface of the vehicle, the subject window configured to be exposed to an exterior of the vehicle via a side face of the vehicle, such that the subject window is configured to enable a subject to enter into or exit from the inner peripheral of the imaging gantry in a body axis direction of the imaging apparatus,
- wherein the subject window has a central axis that corresponds to a central axis of the inner peripheral of the imaging gantry.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.