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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2013
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, Waukesha, WI (US);
GE Hangwei Medical Systems Co., Ltd., Beijing, CN;
Abstract
A method for sorting CT image slices comprising, if no image slice comprises a target respiratory phase at a couch position, determining a target breathing feature value corresponding to the target respiratory phase based on a respiratory motion curve of a scanned patient, searching from a plurality of image slices at the couch position for one or more image slices comprising a breathing feature value close to the target breathing feature value to serve as candidate image slices, and selecting, based on a breathing feature value difference between the breathing feature value of each of the candidate image slices and the target breathing feature value and/or an image difference between each of the candidate image slices and at least one reference image slice, a single image slice from the candidate image slices for constructing the 3D CT image for the target respiratory phase.