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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Joseph Y. Fang, Barrington, IL (US);
Manjit Ray, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Yanhong Chu, Barrington, IL (US);
Joseph Y. Fang, Barrington, IL (US);
Manjit Ray, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Yanhong Chu, Barrington, IL (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for iterative reconstruction of tomographic images of an object of interest includes obtaining data corresponding to a field of view of a detector, processing the data to prepare a reconstruction support region corresponding to a region within the field of view encompassing the object, and reconstructing a tomographic image using the reconstruction support region. Preferably, the data corresponding to the field of view includes at least one of a projection image of the object, an orbit location of a detector relative to a center of rotation of the detector, or an attenuation coefficient map of the object, which data can be used to describe a reconstruction support region corresponding to the object.