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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1999
Hui Hu, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention comprises a system and method for producing images of an object utilizing an x-ray computed tomography (CT) system. Detector elements within the CT system provide raw projection data representing the attenuated x-rays. A data corrector modifies the raw projection data to account for errors to produce corrected projection data. A high order interpolator operates on the corrected projection data to provide estimated projection data at the exact spatial position of the desired image. The high order interpolator utilizes a cubic spline function to determine the estimated projection data. The estimated projection data are used by an image reconstructor to perform high speed image reconstruction.