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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2006
Baojun LI, Waukesha, WI (US);
Stephen W. Metz, Greenfield, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Yogesh Srinivas, Hartland, WI (US);
Xianfeng NI, Merton, WI (US);
Tabb Patz, New Berlin, WI (US);
Baojun Li, Waukesha, WI (US);
Stephen W. Metz, Greenfield, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Yogesh Srinivas, Hartland, WI (US);
Xianfeng Ni, Merton, WI (US);
Tabb Patz, New Berlin, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for creating a variable slice thickness for displaying an imaged object is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a plurality of projection images from a plurality of different projection angles within a defined sweep angle, reconstructing a plurality of object images from the plurality of projection images, each object image having a first slice thickness, and applying a function rule to combine images, whole images or portions thereof or attributes thereof, of the plurality of projection images, of the plurality of object images, or of both, thereby providing for the display of the object utilizing a second slice thickness that varies from the first slice thickness.