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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Yannan Jin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jiahua Fan, New Berlin, WI (US);
Mingye Wu, Glenville, NY (US);
Feng Chen, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present approach relates to avoiding azimuthal blur in a computed tomography context, such as in dual energy imaging with fast kV switching. In accordance with certain aspects, the focal spot position is held stationary in the patient coordinate system within each respective view and the detector signals within the view are summed. In one embodiment, this results in the low and high energy views within the signal being collected from the same position within the patient coordinate system.