Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconstruction of an image of a moving object from volumetric data
- Patent Title (中): 从体积数据重建移动物体的图像
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Application No.: US12471511Application Date: 2009-05-26
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Publication No.: US07924972B2Publication Date: 2011-04-12
- Inventor: Thomas Koehler , Michael Grass , Michael Harald Kuhn , Roland Proksa
- Applicant: Thomas Koehler , Michael Grass , Michael Harald Kuhn , Roland Proksa
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP03102178 20030716
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03

Abstract:
In the CT imaging of non-homogeneously moving objects such as the heart or the coronary vessel tree, there is a problem that different parts of the objects are at rest at different points in time. Thus, a gated reconstruction with a globally selected time point does not yield a sharp image of such objects. According to the present invention, a motion of the object is estimated, describing the motion of selected regions of these objects. Then, on the basis of the estimated motion, time points are determined, where these areas have minimal motion. Then, an image is reconstructed, wherein the data from which the respective regions are reconstructed, correspond to the respective time points, where the regions have minimal motion. Due to this, an improved image quality may be provided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090232379A1 RECONSTRUCTION OF AN IMAGE OF A MOVING OBJECT FROM VOLUMETRIC DATA Public/Granted day:2009-09-17
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