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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2003
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Eugene Clifford Williams, Waukesha, WI (US);
Thomas Louis Toth, Brookfield, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Eugene Clifford Williams, Waukesha, WI (US);
Thomas Louis Toth, Brookfield, WI (US);
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for producing images of an object. The method includes dynamically helically scanning an object on a moving table utilizing a scanning imaging system. During the scan, projection views of the object are acquired and stored together with corresponding table locations. A plane for reconstruction of an image of the object is selected. The stored table locations are used to determine geometric variables applicable to the stored projection views; and the stored projection views are filtered and backprojected utilizing the geometrical variables to reconstruct an image of the object at the reconstruction plane.