Patent ID: 7164748
Filing Date: 2007-01-16
Classification: A61B,G01N

Abstract:
1. A scanning-based arrangement for obtaining imaging data of an object at high repetition rate comprising: a support structure having an axis of rotation; a plurality of scanning-based apparatuses fixedly arranged on said support structure at an essentially similar distance from said axis of rotation, each of said plurality of scanning-based apparatuses including: an object table on which said object is arranged, said object table being arranged in the radiation path between the radiation source and the radiation detector of one of said plurality of scanning-based apparatuses; and a device provided for rotating said support structure around said axis of rotation relative said object table so that said object table will successively be arranged in the radiation path between the divergent radiation source and the radiation detector of each of said plurality of scanning-based apparatuses, during which rotation each of the line detectors of each of said radiation detectors is adapted to record, at high repetition rate, a plurality of line images of radiation as transmitted through said object, wherein said axis of rotation is substantially parallel with each of said axes of symmetry.