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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1999
Tin-Su Pan, Brookfield, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, the present invention is a method for imaging an object utilizing a multi-slice CT imaging system having an x-ray source, a detector array, and a data acquisition system coupled to the detector array, the data acquisition system having a number of data acquisition input channels less than a total number of detector cells in the detector array. The method includes steps of: positioning the object between the x-ray source and the detector array; projecting an x-ray beam towards the object; and selectively reconfiguring a coupling of selected detector cells to the data acquisition input channels to increase a number of image slices received by the data acquisition system.