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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:
Jan. 26, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1997
Jiang Hsieh, Waukesha, WI (US);
Stanley H Fox, Brookfield, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention, in one form, is a system for generating a high resolution image of an object from projection data acquired during a computed tomography scan. The system includes a gantry having an x-ray source which rotates around the object. The x-ray source emits an x-ray beam which is collimated with a collimator having a collimator aperture to define an x-ray beam width, or slice thickness. The projection data is reconstructed to generate image data for adjacent image slices. A deconvolution algorithm is applied to the image data to generate a deconvolved image having a finer, i.e., smaller, resolution than the collimator aperture.