US 11,986,327 B2
Medical x-ray imaging systems and methods
Eugene A. Gregerson, Bolton, MA (US); and Russell Stanton, Lunenberg, MA (US)
Assigned to Mobius Imaging, LLC, Shirley, MA (US)
Filed by Mobius Imaging, LLC, Shirley, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/524,201.
Application 17/524,201 is a continuation of application No. 16/354,047, filed on Mar. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,197,643.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/644,032, filed on Mar. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0061780 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); A61B 6/58 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/035 (2013.01) [A61B 6/4405 (2013.01); A61B 6/4411 (2013.01); A61B 6/4429 (2013.01); A61B 6/4447 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61N 5/1064 (2013.01); H01L 27/14618 (2013.01); A61B 6/4266 (2013.01); A61B 6/4291 (2013.01); A61B 6/587 (2013.01); A61B 6/588 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0437 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0443 (2013.01); A61B 2562/166 (2013.01); A61B 2562/227 (2013.01); G01N 2223/301 (2013.01); G01N 2223/321 (2013.01); G01N 2223/3303 (2013.01); G01N 2223/3304 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An x-ray imaging system, comprising:
an O-shaped gantry including a housing and defining an imaging bore;
an x-ray source located within the housing of the gantry;
a detector system located within the housing of the gantry opposite the x-ray source, the detector system including a plurality of x-ray sensitive detector elements defining a contiguous detector area having an elongated central portion and a pair of peripheral portions arranged on opposing sides of the central portion to define a panel region; and
a drive system for rotating the x-ray source and the detector system around the imaging bore;
wherein the central portion defines a central portion length and a central portion width, and the panel region defines a panel length and a panel width, the central portion length being greater than the panel length, and the panel width being greater than the central portion width.