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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zhongmin Steve Lin, Solon, OH (US);
Shalabh Chandra, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/304 ; A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/304 ; A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
A CT scanner ( ) for obtaining a medical diagnostic image of a subject includes a stationary gantry ( ), and a rotating gantry ( ) rotatably supported on the stationary gantry ( ) for rotation about the subject. A plurality of temporally displaced volume images are gathered, divided into slices, and stored in slice memories ( ). A slice comparitor ( ) compares each slice to a selected reference slice. The slices are transformed by a slice transformer ( ) to align the slices thereby correcting for movement of the subject over the scan period.