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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2007
David Phillipe Sarment, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Miodrag Rakic, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Neal Clinthorne, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Joseph Webster Stayman, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David Phillipe Sarment, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Miodrag Rakic, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Neal Clinthorne, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Joseph Webster Stayman, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Xoran Technologies, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A CT scanner includes a gantry that supports and houses components of the CT scanner. A camera is mounted to the gantry. As the gantry rotates about an axis of rotation, the camera captures a photographic external image of the patient at a plurality of rotational positions. A computer generates a three dimensional external image from the plurality of external images. The three dimensional external image is registered relative to a three dimensional CT image generated from a plurality of x-ray images.