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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Stephen W Metz, Paris, FR;
Girish Saligram, Waukesha, WI (US);
Guy M Besson, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Hui Hu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Sandeep Dutta, New Berlin, WI (US);
Robert F Senzig, Germantown, WI (US);
Min Xie, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A CT Fluoro system having an architecture and algorithms which facilitate increasing the frame rate and providing acceptable image quality is described. Generally, and in one embodiment, the system includes apparatus and algorithms that speed-up image reconstruction and reduce image artifacts that may result from such fast reconstruction. The fast reconstruction is achieved by performing, for example, view compression, channel compression, backprojection with reduced delay, and parallel processing.