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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2011
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Moritz Michael Knorr, Bonn, DE;
Guozhen LI, Shandong, CN;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
El Mahjoub Rasselkorde, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Waheed A. Abbasi, Murrysville, PA (US);
Michael J. Metala, Murrysville, PA (US);
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Moritz Michael Knorr, Bonn, DE;
Guozhen Li, Shandong, CN;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
El Mahjoub Rasselkorde, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Waheed A. Abbasi, Murrysville, PA (US);
Michael J. Metala, Murrysville, PA (US);
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL (US);
Abstract
An image reconstruction method includes receiving volume data comprising a plurality of sampling points, determining a first conditioning of the sampling points suppressing low amplitudes and conserving maximum amplitudes, determining a second conditioning of the sampling points wherein an influence of a sampling point depends on its distance to a grid point in a sampling grid, determining a kernel comprising a plurality of weighting functions for the first conditioning and the second conditioning to determine an energy spread of each of the plurality of sampling points without determining a shape or size of the kernel, and outputting a reconstructed volume according to the energy spread of each of the plurality of sampling points.