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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2002
Weizhong Yan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Maria Iatrou, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kai Frank Goebel, Balston Lake, NY (US);
Erdogan Cesmeli, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A technique is provided for reducing motion-related artifacts present in CT images attributable to the dynamic nature of the imaged tissue or the time-varying concentration of a contrast agent. A region of interest that encompasses a structure of diagnostic significance is selected. For projections acquired by the various rows of detectors in a multi-slice CT imaging system, the portions of the projections attributable to the projection of the region of interest are averaged for each view angle. The projections containing these averaged values are then combined with the projections which do not encompass the region of interest. The combined projection set may be reconstructed to form a CT image of the dynamic tissue. In addition, a smoothing step may be performed to interpolate projection values around the region of interest to smooth the visual transition to the unaveraged portions of the image.