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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2003
Venkatesan Shanmugam, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Mohammed Moin Hussaini, Baltimore, MD (US);
Scott David Wollenweber, Advance, NC (US);
Michael George Bonner, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Venkatesan Shanmugam, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Mohammed Moin Hussaini, Baltimore, MD (US);
Scott David Wollenweber, Advance, NC (US);
Michael George Bonner, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for executing a scanning procedure comprising the steps of generating CT image data for a scan, generating CT attenuation correction data for the scan, acquiring a current frame of PET data for the scan in a 3D format, and simultaneously conducting the following steps: reconstructing at least a portion of a PET image for the current frame, including the step of overlapping a portion of the current frame with an adjacent frame, and acquiring at least a portion of a next frame of PET data.