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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:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld, DE;
Bernd Ohnesorge, Erlangen, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 ;
Abstract
In a method and CT apparatus for producing CT images of a body region periodically moving with resting or motion phases, data corresponding to a number of projections serving the purpose of imaging are analyzed to determine whether each projection was acquired during a resting or motion phase, and only those data that were acquired during a resting phase are employed for image reconstruction.