US 12,268,538 B2
Computer tomograph and method for operating a computer tomograph
Zahra Mohammadi, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to ESSPEN GMBH, Erlangen (DE)
Appl. No. 18/245,854
Filed by ESSPEN GMBH, Erlangen (DE)
PCT Filed Sep. 23, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/076474
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/058036, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 24, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020124474.6 (DE), filed on Sep. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0337995 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/40 (2024.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); H01J 35/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/4014 (2013.01) [A61B 6/4021 (2013.01); A61B 6/4435 (2013.01); A61B 6/4275 (2013.01); A61B 6/4405 (2013.01); H01J 35/30 (2013.01); H01J 2235/068 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer tomograph, comprising a static radiator-detector ring, which is constructed from an odd number (n) of radiator-detector elements, of which a single radiator-detector element is displaceable, with opening of the radiator-detector ring, the displaceable radiator-detector element with the remaining radiator-detector elements together defining a C-shape, wherein each radiator-detector element has an anode arrangement provided for the emission of X-rays, which extends over an angle α of at least 0.9×360°/n on a circumference of the radiator-detector ring, and a detector provided for detection of X-ray radiation, which extends within the same radiator-detector element over an angle β of at least 0.95×360°/n, and wherein each anode arrangement is part of a radiator arrangement comprising a plurality of electron emitters, in which each electron emitter is configured, in cooperation with an electrode arrangement, to generate a focal spot at one of at least three selectable positions on the anode arrangement.