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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:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alan David Kalvin, Irvington, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378-4 ; 378901 ; 382131 ;
Abstract
In an x-ray computed tomography imaging system, it is often useful to have access to the unreconstructed CT projection data, called sinogram data. Scout image data can be converted to a sinogram using a series of computer implemented algorithms, since the original sinogram data may be unavailable or in a proprietary format. Using this conversion, multiple scout images may be substituted for unavailable sinogram data.