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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2012
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Roy-arnulf Helge Nilsen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard DE Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jean-baptiste Thibault, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Baojun LI, Sharon, MA (US);
John Lawrence Seamans, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Roy-Arnulf Helge Nilsen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Peter Michael Edic, Albany, NY (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jean-Baptiste Thibault, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Baojun Li, Sharon, MA (US);
John Lawrence Seamans, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus includes a computed tomography (CT) system having a rotatable gantry, an x-ray source, a generator, a detector having pixels and positioned to receive x-rays, and a computer. The computer is programmed to acquire CT data representative of an object, determine a first subset of the CT data, determine a second subset of the CT data, and determine a difference between the first and second subsets of the CT data to identify a motion region in the object. The computer is also programmed to update image data reconstructed from a first portion of the first subset of the CT data and corresponding to the region and reconstruct an image based on the updated image data and non-updated image data. The non-updated image data is reconstructed from a second portion the first subset of the CT data.