Patent ID: 11918393
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 17:
18. A method for a stationary computed tomography (CT) system, comprising:
activating a first plurality of emitters of a stationary distributed x-ray source unit at a first voltage and a second plurality of emitters of the stationary distributed x-ray source unit at a second voltage to emit x-ray beams of a first energy and to emit x-ray beams of a second energy toward an object within an imaging volume, where the x-ray source unit does not rotate around the imaging volume;
receiving attenuated x-ray beams at the first energy and the second energy with one or more detector arrays; and
reconstructing one or more images from projection data obtained from the one or more detector arrays,
wherein the first plurality of emitters and the second plurality of emitters are positioned in an alternating fashion.