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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2005
Applicant:
Matthias Mitschke, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Inventor:
Matthias Mitschke, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention utilizes external motion sensors to determine a periodic motion of a patient being examined when generating a series of projected images with a C-arm X-ray device. Three-dimensional images are assembled based on the position information provided by the external motion sensors, and a corresponding four-dimensional image is constructed therefrom.