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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Tin-Su Pan, Brookfield, WI (US);
Mark Woodford, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Yun Shen, Tokyo, JP;
Kishore Acharya, Brookfield, WI (US);
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, the present invention is a method for scanning an object with a multi-slice CT imaging system having multiple detector rows each having an isocenter. The method includes steps of helically scanning an object with the multi-slice CT imaging system to obtain data segments including peripheral data segments, combining data from a first peripheral data segment with an opposite, second peripheral segment to form a data set for reconstruction of an image slice; and reconstructing the combined data into image slices.