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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2017
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Nitin Jain, Bangalore, IN;

Charles Stearns, Waukesha, WI (US);

Savitha V S, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4057 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/5235 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/582 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system is provided that includes at least one detector and a processing unit. The at least one detector is configured to acquire imaging information. The processing unit is operably coupled to the at least one detector, and is configured to acquire the imaging information from the at least one detector. The processing unit is configured to acquire patient scanning information for an imaging operation, determine a target activity based on the patient scanning information, determine a target time for performing the imaging operation corresponding to the target activity, perform the imaging operation at the target time to acquire targeted imaging information; and reconstruct an image using the targeted imaging information.


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