Computed tomography apparatus also employable for x-ray diagnostic examinations

US6823039B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Martin Hoheisel · Erlangen, DE
• Hartmut Sklebitz · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2223/612
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computed tomography apparatus has a gantry with an X-ray source and an x-ray detector, and at least one further, curved solid-state radiation detector that is movable into and out of the beam path of the x-ray source is provided in the gantry.