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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:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lutz Guendel, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
In a method for operating a computed tomography (CT) device, having a detector system formed by an array of detector elements that are arranged in rows that extend substantially in the direction of the system axis and also are arranged in columns, the generation of an X-ray shadow image ensues by implementation of a volume scanning, extraction of the data belonging to a desired projection direction from data supplied by a number of rows of the detector system given the volume scanning, and reconstruction of the X-ray shadow image on the basis of the extracted data.