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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2003
Toan Thanh Le, Germantown, WI (US);
Shiying HU, Waukesha, WI (US);
Kishore Chandra Acharya, Brookfield, WI (US);
David A. Caumartin, Saint Cloud, FR;
Karen Ann Procknow, Willowbrook, IL (US);
Toan Thanh Le, Germantown, WI (US);
Shiying Hu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Kishore Chandra Acharya, Brookfield, WI (US);
David A. Caumartin, Saint Cloud, FR;
Karen Ann Procknow, Willowbrook, IL (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for retrospective internal gating is provided. The method includes scanning a patient to obtain projection data, generating images from the projection data, generating a signal representing information regarding a physiological cycle of an object within the patient, specifying at least one target phase based on which the images can be sorted, and sorting the images based on the target phase within a cycle of motion of the object to generate at least one series of images.