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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2002
Dongqing Chen, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Ingmar Bitter, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Dongqing Chen, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
Ingmar Bitter, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Viatronix Incorporated, Stony Brook, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided for motion artifact detection and correction, where an apparatus includes a scanning device for receiving two-dimensional image slices of an object, a rendering device in signal communication with the scanning device for rendering a three-dimensional volume representation of the two-dimensional image slices, and a correction device in signal communication with the rendering device for correcting motion artifacts within the three-dimensional volume representation; and a corresponding method for detecting motion artifacts within scan data of a region comprising an object includes creating a three-dimensional representation with volume elements of the region based on the scan data, analyzing the volume elements along a boundary of the object, and determining the existence of a motion artifact in response to the analyzing.