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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Applicants:
A Hans Vija, Evanston, IL (US);
Trudy Dayle Rempel, West Des Monines, IA (US);
Inventors:
A Hans Vija, Evanston, IL (US);
Trudy Dayle Rempel, West Des Monines, IA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/166 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process for obtaining an attenuation map from a truncated transmission scan of an imaged object, by compensating for missing emission data as a result of truncation by using non-truncated emission data of the imaged object to derive 'fill-in' emission data. The truncation-compensated emission data then is used to generate an attenuation map for correcting a reconstructed emission image for effects of attenuation.