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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:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher C. Slack, New Berlin, WI (US);
Jianying Li, New Berlin, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 ; G01N 2/300 ; G21K 1/22 ; H05G 1/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 ; G01N 2/300 ; G21K 1/22 ; H05G 1/60 ;
Abstract
A method for imaging a heart of a patient utilizing a CT imaging system includes steps of assigning a scanning priority to phases of a representative cardiac cycle of the patient's heart, selecting phases of the cardiac cycle for scanning in accordance with the assigned scanning priority, and obtaining image slices of the patient's heart corresponding the selected phases of the cardiac cycle. The method can be performed by a CT imaging system including an EKG machine to record EKG data.