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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2011
Jean-baptiste Thibault, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Zhou Yu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiao Wang, South Bend, IN (US);
Ken David Sauer, South Bend, IN (US);
Charles Addison Bouman, Jr., West Lafayette, IN (US);
Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Zhou Yu, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiao Wang, South Bend, IN (US);
Ken David Sauer, South Bend, IN (US);
Charles Addison Bouman, Jr., West Lafayette, IN (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
University of Notre Dame du Lac, Notre Dame, IN (US);
Abstract
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program having instructions, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to acquire a set of projection data corresponding to a plurality of image voxels and to calculate coefficients of a regularizing function configured to penalize differences between pairs of the plurality of voxels that are not immediate neighbors. The instructions also cause the computer to iteratively reconstruct an image from the set of projection data based on the regularizing function.