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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Scott David Wollenweber, Waukesha, WI (US);

Michael George Bonner, Wauwatosa, WI (US);

Michael Joseph Cook, Oconomowoc, WI (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5288 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); A61B 6/466 (2013.01); A61B 6/5264 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for selecting data to reconstruct a three-dimensional (3D) image of a subject of interest includes acquiring a 3D emission dataset of the subject of interest, acquiring a respiratory signal of the subject of interest, the respiratory signal including a plurality of respiratory cycles, and calculating a respiratory profile using the respiratory signal. The method further includes, for each respiratory cycle, generating a gating window, calculating a minimum total squared difference (TSD) between a plurality of phases in the respiratory profile and the same plurality of phases in the respiratory cycle, and positioning the gating window based on the TSD values calculated, and reconstructing a 3D image using only the emission data within the plurality of gated windows. A system and non-transitory computer readable medium are also described herein.


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