Patent 7020233 was granted and assigned to Analogic on March, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A frame for a tomography scanner system includes a gantry having two, separate annular inner races supported for independent rotation within an annular outer support, wherein the inner races are for respectively supporting x-ray CT scanner components and PET scanner components for rotation with the races about a shared rotation axis of the races within the gantry, and wherein the inner races are spaced along the rotation axis.