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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2005
Applicant:
Eric G. Hawman, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Inventor:
Eric G. Hawman, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of iteratively reconstructing images from data acquired by converging collimation SPECT, comprising the steps of dividing a reconstruction space into multiple iso-resolution zones that are oriented non-parallel to the detector, and correcting for attenuation by applying a same attenuation value to all voxels in the same iso-resolution zone.