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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2015
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Jun Ma, Palatine, IL (US);
Alexander Hans Vija, Evanston, IL (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Projection data are acquired for a portion of the body of a patient at multiple views using one or more detectors, the projection data including multiple two dimensional (2D) projections. A 3D image is initialized. For each view among the plurality of views, the 3D image is transformed using a view transformation corresponding to said view to generate an initial transformed image corresponding to said view, and multiple iterations of an MLEM process are performed based on at least the initial transformed image and the projection data. The MLEM process is initialized with the initial transformed image. The 3D image is updated based on an output of the MLEM process.