Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of CT perfusion imaging and apparatus for implementing same
- Patent Title (中): CT灌注成像方法及其实现方法
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Application No.: US12477677Application Date: 2009-06-03
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Publication No.: US07933377B2Publication Date: 2011-04-26
- Inventor: Jiang Hsieh , Paul E. Licato , Akira Hagiwara , Mark Vincent Profio , Karen Ann Procknow , Saad Ahmed Sirohey , Srinivas Aluri , Olga Imas
- Applicant: Jiang Hsieh , Paul E. Licato , Akira Hagiwara , Mark Vincent Profio , Karen Ann Procknow , Saad Ahmed Sirohey , Srinivas Aluri , Olga Imas
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agency: Ziolkowski Patent Solutions Group, SC
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00

Abstract:
A CT system includes a scintillator array having a first length in an axial direction of the CT system, the scintillator array includes a plurality of scintillator cells along the first length. The CT system includes a controller configured to repeatedly position a subject fore and aft along the axial direction and over a second length of the CT system, the second length greater than the first length, energize an x-ray source to emit x-rays toward the subject while the subject is being repeatedly positioned, and obtain non-uniform projection data of the subject from the scintillator array, the non-uniform projection data comprising the x-rays received from the x-ray source while the subject is repeatedly positioned. The CT system includes a computer programmed to reconstruct a plurality of temporally non-uniformly spaced images from the non-uniform projection data, interpolate the plurality of non-uniform images to form a plurality of temporally uniform images, and apply a perfusion map generation process to the plurality of temporally uniform images.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100310040A1 METHOD OF CT PERFUSION IMAGING AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING SAME Public/Granted day:2010-12-09
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