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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2005
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Paavana Sainath, Oconomowoc, WI (US);
James Watkins Madine, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Charles Hugh Shaughnessy, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Eugene Clifford Williams, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abdelaziz Ikhlef, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Paavana Sainath, Oconomowoc, WI (US);
James Watkins Madine, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Charles Hugh Shaughnessy, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Eugene Clifford Williams, Waukesha, WI (US);
Abdelaziz Ikhlef, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for scanning a patient by using a medical imaging device are provided. The methods include determining a defective cell in a row n of a detector of the medical imaging device, determining a mode of operation of the medical imaging device, estimating the output of the defective cell using the determined mode of operation and at least one of a conjugate sample of the defective cell, an adjusted conjugate sample of the defective cell, and an estimate of the output of the defective cell using an output of a corresponding cell in an adjacent row and reconstructing an image of the patient using the estimated value of the defective cell.