General Electric Company

Steve Woloschek

Tin-Su Pan

Jiang Hsieh

Kishore Chandra Acharya

Mark Edward Woodford

Yun Shen

H David He

A system and method of medical imaging using a variable speed patient positioning table are provided. The patient positioning table is configured to operate at a plurality of table speeds during acquisition of data from a selected region, such as the thorax region baying predefined cardiac and non-cardiac regions. In a non-cardiac region, the table is controlled to move at one speed and when the cardiac region is detected, the table is controlled to move at another speed, preferably faster than in the cardiac region to speed data acquisition and eliminate motion artifacts.

System and method of imaging using a variable speed for thorax imaging

A method and apparatus for imaging a heart with a scanning computed tomography (CT) imaging system. A cardiac cycle of a patient is measured. The patient's heart is then scanned with the scanning CT imaging system at an angular rate asynchronous to the measured cardiac cycle to obtain image data. An image of the patient's heart is then assembled from chronologically discontinuous segments of the image data. The image is representative of a selected portion of the cardiac cycle.

Methods and apparatus for cardiac imaging with conventional computed tomography

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Franklin, WI, United States of America

Steve Woloschek