Patent 9301726 was granted and assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on April, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A CT machine for scanning a stationary patient may provide for two-bar linkage articulated arms to move a CT gantry in an arbitrary trajectory. In one embodiment, the gantry may fit within a cavity to expose a central platform, which may support a patient for vertical scans in which the gantry housing rises from the cavity after the patient is so positioned.