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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2002
Tetsuya Horiuchi, Tokyo, JP;
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
In order to obtain an image with artifacts suppressed when a helical scan is conducted employing a multi-row detector with a scan plane tilted, preprocessing such as sensitivity correction is applied to data collected by a helical scan employing a multi-row detector with a scan plane tilted (S ), tilt correcting processing is applied for correcting view-to-view variation of the positions of channels in the detector rows relative to an axis of translation due to the tilt of the scan plane (S ), multi-slice/helical interpolation processing is applied for calculating interpolated data from proximate data in an image reconstruction plane (S ), and backprojection processing is applied to the interpolated data to produce an image (S ).