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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:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2013
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Albany, NY (US);

David Allen Langan, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Kedar Bhalchandra Khare, New Delhi, IN;

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/027 (2013.01); A61B 6/4441 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for imaging. The system includes one or more radiation sources and detectors configured to transmit x-ray radiation towards a subject for imaging a dynamic process in a ROI of the subject and to acquire projection data corresponding to the ROI, respectively. The system also includes a computing device operatively coupled to one or more of the radiation sources and the detectors. The computing device is configured to provide control signals for performing one or more reference scans for acquiring reference data from a plurality of angular positions around the subject and for performing one or more tomosynthesis scans using one or more tomosynthesis trajectories for acquiring tomosynthesis data following the onset of the dynamic process. Additionally, the computing device is configured to reconstruct one or more images representative of the dynamic process using the reference data and/or the tomosynthesis data.


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