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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2002
Dominic J. Heuscher, Aurora, OH (US);
Shiying Zhao, Normandy, MO (US);
David D. Matthews, Twinsburg, OH (US);
GE Wang, Iowa City, IA (US);
Dominic J. Heuscher, Aurora, OH (US);
Shiying Zhao, Normandy, MO (US);
David D. Matthews, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Ge Wang, Iowa City, IA (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus for computed tomography (CT) imaging of a cyclically moving organ includes a positional state monitor () that monitors a positional state of the cyclically moving organ such as the heart. A cone-beam CT scanner () acquires image data at least within a plurality of time windows. Each time window is centered about an occurrence of a selected positional state of the organ. A window analyzer () selects a data segment within each time window such that the data segments combine to form a complete data set covering a selected angular range. A reconstruction processor () reconstructs the selected data segments into an image representation.