Patent Document ID: 9517036
Application ID: 13589514
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An imaging system, comprising: a radiation source; a positioner configured to rotate the radiation source along an arc path at a rate that is equal to or less than R max , R max being calculated from α and T using a processing unit, and being equal to α/T, wherein the rate is a speed of rotation of the radiation source when the radiation source is rotating; an imager in operative position relative to the radiation source, wherein the radiation source and the imager are configured to obtain a plurality of images while the radiation source is at different positions along the arc path; and a processor configured to determine a digital tomosynthesis image using a subset of the plurality of images; where α is an angular spacing between a subset of the images that belongs to a same bin, and T is a period of a physiological motion, wherein at least two images in the subset of the images belonging to the same bin correspond with two different respective positions of the radiation source.