Patent ID: 11937969
Assignee: AGFA NV
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. A method for determining positional information of multiple movable modality components for use in determining the acquisition geometry of a tomographic system, comprising the steps of:
synchronizing a set of digital clocks that are individually associated with said multiple movable modality components, by giving an electric synchronization signal over an electrical connection interconnecting each of said clocks,
receiving and storing in a memory multiple time-stamped positional event data from said multiple movable modality components during a tomographic acquisition sequence, said positional event data generated from positional events that are being triggered by said multiple movable modality components, and at which moment a time-stamp is associated with said positional event based on the time signal of the respective associated clock at said positional event,
receiving a query for a time event, and calculating the positional data for all movable image modality components for said time event by interpolation of the positional data stored in said memory, and
outputting the positional data for all movable image modality components to an output interface.