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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2013
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, Llc, Waukesha, WI (US);
Akira Hagiwara, Tokyo, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An image producing method is provided. The method includes acquiring regular-interval parallel-beam projection data whose intervals in a channel direction are the same and parallel to each other in a plurality of view directions by applying interpolation processing in a view direction, rearrangement processing, and interpolation processing in the channel direction to fan-beam projection data, and reconstructing an image by applying back projection processing to the acquired regular-interval parallel-beam projection data, wherein the interpolation processing in the view direction includes interpolation processing which is performed along a curve or a first straight line made by deforming or rotating a second straight line parallel to the view direction so as to be proximate to a trajectory drawn by dots corresponding to a desired position in a Scan Field Of View region on a sinogram of the collected fan-beam projection data in the plurality of views.