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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2007
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, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A new method extends iterated coordinate descent ('ICD')—an optimization method employed in some statistical reconstruction algorithms—to handle material decomposition ('MD') for energy discriminating computed tomography (“EDCT”) acquisitions.