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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:
Dec. 30, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Juergen Wohlrab, Forchheim, DE;
Manfred Herbert, Erlangen-Buechenbach, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Akiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378-4 ; 378901 ;
Abstract
A computed tomography apparatus which generates an image of an examined subject using Fourier reconstruction with a gridding algorithm operates so that this algorithm is efficiently implemented by employing a hardware unit in the form of an ASIC, which produces the additional formation of contributions in the Cartesian frequency matrix, derived from the polar support points.