SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PET-CT IMAGES

Patent №

US 7,447,345

Granted

2008-11-04

Filed 2003

Owner

GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LLC

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Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10735714

The invention relates to a system and method for executing a scanning procedure comprising the steps of generating CT image data for a scan, generating CT attenuation correction data for the scan, acquiring a current frame of PET data for the scan in a 3D format, and simultaneously conducting the following steps: reconstructing at least a portion of a PET image for the current frame, including the step of overlapping a portion of the current frame with an adjacent frame, and acquiring at least a portion of a next frame of PET data.

VisionG06T 11/005G06T 12/10A61B 6/032A61B 6/037A61B 6/4417A61B 6/463A61B 6/5229A61B 6/5241

AI classification

Vision0.91
Planning0.03
AI hardware0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

GE MEDICAL SYSTEMS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LLC

assignment · 148260176

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

assignment · 216690372

Assignors

SHANMUGAM, VENKATESAN, BONNER, MICHAEL GEORGE, HUSSAINI, MOHAMMED MOIN, WOLLENWEBER, SCOTT DAVID

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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