Patent ID: 6895105

Claim:
An apparatus for use with a dual imaging system including a first and a second imaging configurations to collect first and second image data sets, respectively, that define adjacent first and second imaging areas along a translation axis, respectively, and that included first and second imaging detectors laterally displaced from the axis, respectively, the first and second configurations fixed with respect to each other along the axis, the system positioned adjacent a table support that supports a table for movement through the imaging areas along the axis, the apparatus for compensating for downward table divergence at the extended end of the table that occurs during table extension, the apparatus comprising: at least one sensor for sensing the amount that at least a first table segment diverges downward as the table is extended from the support and into the imaging areas; a determiner for using the amount that the at least a first table segment diverges to determine the relative position of at least one of the first and second detectors with respect to the table during data acquisition; and a compensator using the at least one relative position to modify at least one of the data sets prior to the sets being combined to form a unified image.