Patent ID: 9044600
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: A61N,H05H

Abstract:
1. An apparatus configured to acquire a three-dimensional image of a portion of a patient using charged particles traveling along a beam path, said apparatus comprising: a controller configured to control: a synchrotron, a platform, and a tomographic reconstruction algorithm, said synchrotron comprising: the tomographic reconstruction algorithm configured to generate the three dimensional image using an image set; and said platform configured to support the patient, said platform comprising computer control of at least one of: a three-dimensional x-ray tomography system configured to generate a three-dimensional x-ray image, said controller configured to use said synchrotron to acquire a tomographic image, wherein said three dimensional image comprises a hybrid of the three-dimensional x-ray image and said tomographic image, wherein at least a portion of said platform comprises a position under a portion of the beam path, during use said beam path comprising charged particles extracted from said synchrotron of a charged particle beam system, said platform configured to rotate through at least one hundred eighty degrees during an irradiation period, and said computer control configured to collect the image set, the image set comprising images collected during at least ten rotation positions of said rotatable platform.