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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Herbert Bruder, Hoechstadt, DE;
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld, DE;
Ernst Klotz, Uttenreuth, DE;
Karl Stierstorfer, Erlangen, DE;
Herbert Bruder, Hoechstadt, DE;
Thomas Flohr, Uehlfeld, DE;
Ernst Klotz, Uttenreuth, DE;
Karl Stierstorfer, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktienbesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for a multislice computer assisted tomograph, capable of carrying out a spiral scan of an object volume with a pitch p selected to be small enough that each slice of the object volume is multiply detected during the spiral scan. The method includes calculating, using measured data of two temporally consecutive at least one of revolutions and half revolutions, an image of the object volume from which a change inside the object volume between the two temporally consecutive at least one of revolutions and half revolutions is directly visible. An embodiment of the method can permit, for example, the detection and visualization of dynamic processes with an enhanced time resolution.