Patent ID: 9513385
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G01N,G01T,G21K

Claim Text:
1. An x-ray scanner, comprising: an x-ray source producing a fan beam of x-rays; at least two x-ray detector arrays each: having a detector dimension; detecting x-rays from the x-ray source along the detector dimension; a collimator disposed between the x-ray source and the at least two x-ray detector arrays and defining a plurality of lateral slits to collimate the fan beam of x-rays into a plurality of lateral beams such that the lateral beams have a height dimension that is the same as the height dimension of the TDI detector arrays; the collimator being fixed to the x-ray source, the x-ray source moving about a source movement axis; a first motor moving the at least one collimator and the x-ray source together; second and third motors each respectively moving one of the TDI detector arrays; and an x-ray processing unit: