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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Debashish Pal, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Paavana Sainath, Oconomowoc, WI (US);
Girijesh Yadava, Waukesha, WI (US);
Brian Edward Nett, Madison, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging system includes a rotatable gantry for receiving an object to be scanned, a generator configured to energize an x-ray source to generate x-rays, a detector positioned to receive the x-rays that pass through the object, and a computer. The computer is programmed to obtain knowledge of a metal within the object, scan the object using system scanning parameters, reconstruct an image of the object using a reconstruction algorithm, and automatically select at least one of the system scanning parameters and the reconstruction algorithm based on the obtained knowledge.