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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2008
Debasish Mishra, Bangalore, IN;
William Robert Ross, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Thomas James Batzinger, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Manoharan Venugopal, Bangalore, IN;
Forrest Frank Hopkins, Cohoes, NY (US);
Nityanand Gopalika, State College, PA (US);
Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy, Bangalore, IN;
Rajashekar Venkatachalam, Bangalore, IN;
Prasad Thapa, Bangalore, IN;
Debasish Mishra, Bangalore, IN;
William Robert Ross, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Thomas James Batzinger, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Manoharan Venugopal, Bangalore, IN;
Forrest Frank Hopkins, Cohoes, NY (US);
Nityanand Gopalika, State College, PA (US);
Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy, Bangalore, IN;
Rajashekar Venkatachalam, Bangalore, IN;
Prasad Thapa, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging technique is provided for acquiring scatter free images of an object. The technique includes acquiring a plurality of projection images of the object using a source and a detector oriented at a plurality of projection angles relative to the object, and generating a plurality of scatter free projection images by correcting the plurality of projection images based on respective ones of a plurality of stored scatter images. The scatter images are generated and stored for each of the projection angles by positioning a scatter rejection plate between the object and the detector. The technique further includes reconstructing a three-dimensional image of the object based on the scatter free projection images.