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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
May. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wen-Tai Lin, Schenectady, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378-4 ; 378901 ; 25036302 ; 25036304 ;
Abstract
A method of real time compensating for patient movement associated with expansion and contraction in computed tomography utilizes the determination of the centroids of successive images, rescaling of each projection data, the alignment of the centroids, and display of the aligned images.