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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:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2004
Applicants:
Samuli Siltanen, Helsinki, FI;
Petri Jouhikainen, Järvenpää, FI;
Inventors:
Samuli Siltanen, Helsinki, FI;
Petri Jouhikainen, Järvenpää, FI;
Assignee:
GE Healthcare Finland Oy, , FI;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for producing a three-dimensional digital x-ray image by using digital x-ray images taken of the object from at least two different directions as input for a reconstruction algorithm. In the method, at least one of the images used as input is taken as a tomosynthetic slice image of a region of interest () in the object () of imaging.