US 12,082,959 B2
Method for positioning a mobile tomography device
Jeroen Cant, Mortsel (BE); and Vincent Van Nieuwenhove, Mortsel (BE)
Assigned to Agfa NV, Mortsel (BE)
Filed by AGFA NV, Mortsel (BE)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,789.
Claims priority of application No. 21188413 (EP), filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0032243 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/4405 (2013.01) [A61B 6/4429 (2013.01); A61B 6/547 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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1. A method for adjusting an initial starting position (199) of an acquisition trajectory (201+202+203) of a mobile X-ray device (220) to perform a portable X-ray tomography acquisition sequence on a region of interest of an object (100), comprising the steps of:
positioning said mobile X-ray device at said initial starting position (199) such that an estimated acquisition trajectory is aligned with a digital imaging detector (300) by an operator,
receiving X-ray source collimator settings, and
calculating said acquisition trajectory of said mobile X-ray device (220) during said portable X-ray tomography acquisition sequence for said initial starting position,
characterized in that,
the acquisition trajectory of said mobile X-ray device during said portable X-ray tomography acquisition sequence for said initial starting position is visualized for each change in position of said mobile X-ray device, and
said initial starting position for said acquisition trajectory is adjusted interactively by said operator by moving said mobile X-ray device, such that a trajectory portion of said visualized acquisition trajectory is aligned with said region of interest of said patient.