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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2010
Alexander Zamyatin, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US);
Be-shan Chiang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Satoru Nakanishi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Alexander Zamyatin, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US);
Be-Shan Chiang, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Satoru Nakanishi, Tochigi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
Embodiments and processes of computer tomography perform tasks associated with weighting projection data based upon at least one motion index such as electrocardiogram gated reconstruction, view-based motion map and ray-based motion map. Other embodiments and processes of computer tomography perform tasks associated with weighting projection data based upon at least one motion index and another index that is associated with certain geometric characteristics of a cone beam.