US 12,109,057 B2
Medical imaging systems and methods of using the same
Zhiping Mu, Foster City, CA (US)
Assigned to ARGOSPECT TECHNOLOGIES INC., Foster, CA (US)
Filed by Argospect Technologies Inc., Foster City, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/856,559.
Application 17/856,559 is a division of application No. 16/844,950, filed on Apr. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,375,963.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/832,082, filed on Apr. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346734 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/06 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/40 (2024.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01)
CPC A61B 6/4233 (2013.01) [A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/4035 (2013.01); A61B 6/4447 (2013.01); A61B 6/5211 (2013.01); A61B 6/548 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical imaging system, comprising:
a collimator having a plurality of collimator parts configured to filter radiation emitted from a target object;
a detector base; and
a detector having a plurality of detector tiles, configured to acquire an image of the target object by detecting radiation that has passed through the plurality of collimator parts, wherein at least one of the plurality of detector tiles is tilted with respect to the detector base.