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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:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Min Xie, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jeffrey L Agle, New Berlin, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378 62 ; 378901 ;
Abstract
The present invention, in one form, is a system which, in one embodiment, improves the signal to noise of a scout image by aligning projection data in a z-axis. More specifically, by altering a table speed, a data acquisition system sampling rate, and a delay factor, the projection data collected from a detector array is aligned in the z-axis so that an improved scout image is generated. Particularly, and in one embodiment, the delay factor is adjusted so that the misalignment of the projection data collected from the detector is minimized.