Mobile tomography imaging
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorsAlexander Hans Vija, Michal Cachovan
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Abstract
A detector used for tomography imaging is mobile, allowing the detector to move about an object (e.g., patient to be imaged). A swarm of such detectors, such as a swarm of drones with detectors, may be used for tomography imaging. The trajectory or trajectories of the mobile detectors may account for the pose and/or movement of the object being imaged. The trajectory or trajectories may be based, in part, on the sampling for desired tomography. An image of an internal region of the object is reconstructed from detected signals of the mobile detectors using tomography.
Claims20
A tomography medical imaging system comprising:
- a plurality of separate vehicles, each of the separate vehicles independently movable in two or more dimensions, each of the separate vehicles having a detector;
- an image processor configured to generate a two or three-dimensional representation of an internal region of a patient by tomography from signals of the detectors;
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- a display configured to display an image of the two or three-dimensional representation of the internal region of the patient.
A method for medical tomography imaging, the method comprising:
- moving a drone with a detector, the drone moving about a patient;
- sensing radiation from a patient with the detector during the moving;
- tomographically reconstructing an image of an internal region of the patient from the sensed radiation;
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- displaying the image.
A tomography imaging system comprising:
- a swarm of mobile detectors, each of the mobile detectors independently movable in two or more dimensions;
- an image processor configured to generate, by tomography from signals from the mobile detectors, a two or three-dimensional representation of an internal region of an object;
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- a display configured to display an image of the object from the two or three-dimensional representation of the internal region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.