Apparatus and method for non-rotational computer tomography

US8345817B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. · DE

Inventors

• Theobald Fuchs · Koblenzer Straße, DE
• Tobias Schoen · Nuremberg, DE
• Randolf Hanke · Fürth, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2009
• Grant date: Jan 1, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2211/436
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A multi-dimensional representation of an object is obtained in that first and second pictures of the object illuminated using an X-ray source are created using a sensor that is located, in relation to the X-ray source, behind the object in a preferential direction defined by the relative positions of the object and of the sensor. A distance in the preferential direction between the X-ray source and the object is different in the first picture than in the second picture. The multi-dimensional representation of the object is obtained by combining the first and second pictures.