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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2004
Applicants:

Samit Kumar Basu, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Bruno Kristiaan Bernard Deman, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Inventors:

Samit Kumar Basu, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Bruno Kristiaan Bernard Deman, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for reconstructing image data from acquired tomographic projection data measurements is provided. The projection data measurements comprise one or more missing data measurements. The method comprises generating a coarse-resolution projection data set from the acquired projection data measurements and performing an iterative reconstruction on the coarse-resolution projection data set to generate a coarse-resolution reconstructed data set. Then, the method comprises reprojecting the coarse-resolution reconstructed data set to obtain one or more estimates for the one or more missing data measurements. The one or more estimated missing data measurements are then recombined with the acquired projection data measurements, to generate a recombined data set. Then, a direct reconstruction algorithm is applied to the recombined data set to generate the reconstructed image data.


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