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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:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sharon X. Wang, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Roy-Arnulf Helge Nilsen, Menomonee Falls, WI (US);
John A. Fusco, Waukesha, WI (US);
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
One aspect of the present invention is a method for reconstructing computed tomographic (CT) images. The method includes generating a plurality of projection data, calculating a plurality of base weights using the projection data for each series of images to be reconstructed, storing the base weights in an external memory, and applying a z-smoothing module to the base weights to determine a plurality of final weights. The view weighting process then includes applying the final weights to the projection data for each image.