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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld, DE;
Stefan Schaller, Fuerth, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
In a method and computed tomography (CT) apparatus for the reconstruction of images from CT measured values acquired by spiral scan that are respectively allocated to one of a number of projection angles and a z-position on the longitudinal axis of the spiral scan, for each projection angle, all measured values belonging thereto and to the corresponding complementary projection angle and lying within a maximum spatial distance from the image plane, and lying within a maximum time from a reference time, are employed in the reconstruction, respectively weighted according to their spatial and time position.