CT cone beam scanner with fast and complete data acquistion and accurate and efficient regional reconstruction
First Claim
1. In an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converge at a focal point, a method for reconstructing an image of an object comprising the steps of:
- establishing relative movement between said cone beam focal point and said object along a composite scan path, comprising primary and supplementary scan path components;
acquiring a set of cone beam data of said object with said detector during movement along said supplementary scan path component, said cone beam data associated with said supplementary scan path to be used only for deriving information which cannot be derived from other cone beam data that is associated with the primary scan path;
computing a set of values of an intermediate function from said cone beam data, each of said computed values having an associated location defined by a prespecified point grid lying on the detector plane; and
employing each of said computed values to compute the supplementary component of a reconstruction function of said object.
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Abstract
A method is provided for reconstructing an image of an object, for use in an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converge at a focal point. The method includes the step of establishing relative movement between the cone beam focal point and the object along a composite scan path, comprising primary and supplementary scan path components, the supplementary path usefully comprising a linear or helical path. The method further includes acquiring a set of cone beam data of the object with the detector during movement along the supplementary scan path component, computing a set of values of an intermediate function from the cone beam data, each of said computed values having an associated location defined by a prespecified point grid lying on the detector plane, and employing each of the computed values in a back-projection operation to determine the value of a reconstruction function, for use in forming an image of the object. The method also includes a strategy of imaging longitudinally-unbounded object section by section
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27 Claims
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1. In an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converge at a focal point, a method for reconstructing an image of an object comprising the steps of:
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establishing relative movement between said cone beam focal point and said object along a composite scan path, comprising primary and supplementary scan path components; acquiring a set of cone beam data of said object with said detector during movement along said supplementary scan path component, said cone beam data associated with said supplementary scan path to be used only for deriving information which cannot be derived from other cone beam data that is associated with the primary scan path; computing a set of values of an intermediate function from said cone beam data, each of said computed values having an associated location defined by a prespecified point grid lying on the detector plane; and employing each of said computed values to compute the supplementary component of a reconstruction function of said object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converge at a focal point, a method for reconstructing an image of an object comprising the steps of:
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establishing relative movement between said cone beam focal point and said object along a composite scan path, comprising primary and supplementary scan path components; acquiring a set of cone beam data of said object with said detector during movement along said supplementary scan path component; computing a set of values of an intermediate function from said cone beam data, each of said computed values having an associated location defined by a prespecified point grid lying on the detector plane, said values of said intermediate function being computed on the detector plane on a grid whose sampling spacing is substantially greater than that of the detector elements projected on the detector plane; and employing each of said computed values to compute the supplementary component of a reconstruction function of said object.
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12. In an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converse at a focal point, a method for reconstructing an image of an object comprising the steps of:
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computing at least one part of the said reconstruction on a sparser three-dimensional image grid, which, compared with a full-size image grid, has a larger spacing between points in the x, y, and/or z directions; combining thumbnail reconstructions of all said computed parts; generating a combined full size reconstruction of said computed parts from the combined thumbnail reconstructions by interpolation; and combining the interpolated full size reconstruction with the full-size reconstructions of other parts to produce the complete full-size reconstruction.
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13. In an imaging system wherein a detector is mounted for measuring radiation emanating in a cone beam of rays which converge at a focal point, a method for reconstructing an image of the object comprising the steps of:
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establishing relative movement between said cone beam focal point and said object along a composite scan path comprising primary and curved supplementary components; acquiring a set of cone beam data of said object with said detector during movement along said curved supplementary scan path; and deriving an intermediate function from said cone beam data for use in forming the supplementary component of the reconstruction function of said object. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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