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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Juergen Wohlrab, Forchheim, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378-4 ; 378901 ; 600425 ;
Abstract
In a computed tomography apparatus with a volume reconstruction by a three-dimensional gridding algorithm an arithmetic unit and method for operating same are provided for efficiently implementing the three-dimensional gridding algorithm. In this arithmetic unit and method, randomly-distributed supporting points SP are weighted in the frequency space in order to be able to apply a 3D gridding algorithm for a three-dimensional Fourier reconstruction for a computed tomography apparatus. An ASIC is provided wherein the supporting point weighting and the 3D gridding algorithm are efficiently implemented.