Patent ID: 11872068
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  H | IPC A  G  H

Claim 17:
18. An X-ray imaging apparatus comprising:
a pulsed X-ray source having a control signal;
a time-sensitive X-ray detector having a time-dependent X-ray photon detection signal output;
a processor, connected to said control signal and said time-dependent X-ray photon detection signal output, having an output for providing a measure of ballistic photons with a reduction in a measurement of scattered photons received by said time-sensitive detector and to generate a 2D and/or a 3D image from said measure;
wherein said apparatus is operative to obtain said image with a given contrast to noise ratio (CNR) while delivering a dosage of X-rays that is at least 30% lower to a typical human abdominal region of at least 20 cm thickness than when continuous X-rays of a same energy are used in a similarly-structured continuous X-ray imaging apparatus.