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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/06 (2006.01); A61B 6/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/06 (2013.01); A61B 6/08 (2013.01); A61B 6/405 (2013.01); A61B 6/4021 (2013.01); A61B 6/469 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/586 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling an X-ray in a computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes: acquiring scout images of an object; setting an imaging region of the object in the acquired scout images; determining an outline of transverse axes lengths of the imaging region based on the transverse axes lengths of the imaging region; controlling X-rays emitted toward the object by adjusting a distance between elements of a transverse collimator of the CT apparatus according to the determined outline; and reconstructing a cross-sectional X-ray image of the object based on X-ray projection data generated by detecting the controlled X-rays.