US 11,839,502 B2
Portable head CT scanner
Steven Winn Smith, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to TEK84 INC., Poway, CA (US)
Filed by TEK84 INC., Poway, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/118,000.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/316,681, filed on Mar. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0320677 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/032 (2013.01) [A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/4275 (2013.01); A61B 6/4405 (2013.01); A61B 6/5229 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable computerized tomography (CT) scanning assembly to scan a patient's head, comprising:
a portable scan board on which a patient is positioned; and
a portable CT scanner positioned onto the portable scan board, the portable CT scanner and the portable scan board forming the portable CT scanning assembly, the portable CT scanner being operative to:
rotate an X-ray source around the patient's head to scan the patient's head by transmitting X-rays through the patient's head at a plurality of angles, the transmitted X-rays being received by an X-ray detector opposite the X-ray source;
translate across the portable scan board to scan the patient's head at a plurality of locations; and
generate an image illustrating one or more aspects of the patient's head, the image being a composite image reconstruction based on the rotational and translational scanning of the patient's head.