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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Charles A. Mistretta, Madison, WI (US);
Julia Velikina, Madison, WI (US);
Kevin Michael Johnson, Madison, WI (US);
Charles A. Mistretta, Madison, WI (US);
Julia Velikina, Madison, WI (US);
Kevin Michael Johnson, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
An image reconstruction method includes reconstructing a composite image of a subject using a conventional reconstruction method. The composite image employs the best information available regarding the subject of the scan and this information is used to constrain the reconstruction of a highly undersampled image frames or improve the SNR of image frames. A blurred and normalized weighting image is produced from image frame data, and this normalized weighting image is multiplied by the composite image.