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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2010
Kedar Bhalachandra Khare, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);
Kedar Bhalachandra Khare, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method of tomographic image construction includes performing sparsification on initial projection data for an object with a processor to provide sparsified projection data of the object. The method also includes backprojecting the sparsified projection data with the processor to provide a three-dimensional image of the object, and performing sparsification on the three-dimensional image with the processor to provide a sparsified image.