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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:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wen-Tai Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
378-4 ; 378 15 ; 378901 ;
Abstract
A source applies imaging energy that passes through an object being imaged and is then detected by a detector connected to a processor. A scanning trajectory includes first and second scan paths. The first scan path has a shadow zone where a complete image cannot be obtained from corresponding first scan path data. The second scan path provides data from the shadow zone. Partial images from the first scan path and the second scan path are Fourier transformed after which some data is removed prior to adding the Fourier data together. An inverse Fourier transform is then used to provide an overall image.