US 11,786,199 B1
X-ray pencil beam forming system and method
Omar Al-Kofahi, Chelmsford, MA (US); and Domenic Anthony Martignetti, Nashua, NH (US)
Assigned to SEETHRU AI INC., Chelmsford, MA (US)
Filed by Seethru AI Inc., Chelmsford, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/123,482.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/322,696, filed on Mar. 23, 2022.
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/48 (2013.01) [A61B 6/42 (2013.01); A61B 6/4488 (2013.01); A61B 6/107 (2013.01); A61B 6/4071 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air cooled x-ray system configured to form a scanning pencil beam of x-rays comprising:
an enclosure having a first end and an opposite second end;
an x-ray beam source configured to generate x-rays, the x-ray beam source is disposed in the enclosure proximate to the first end of the enclosure;
an x-ray wheel having or holding an x-ray attenuating ring proximate to the first end of the enclosure, the x-ray attenuating ring having at least one aperture in an outer circumference thereof;
the x-ray wheel being configured to rotate the x-ray attenuating ring about the x-ray beam source, wherein a passage of x-rays through the at least one aperture forms the scanning pencil beam;
at least one air inlet disposed in x-ray system;
at least one air outlet disposed in x-ray system;
at least one air moving device configured to move air through the air inlet and the air outlet and to air cool the x-ray system, the at least one air moving device is disposed outside of a perimeter of the x-ray wheel and the enclosure; and
wherein the enclosure comprises an x-ray attenuating material and is configured and disposed to substantially limit x-ray leakage from the x-ray system.