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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1127/CHENP/2012 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :03/02/2012 (43) Publication Date : 21/06/2013
(54) Title of the invention : METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES
WITH OFFSET DETECTOR GEOMETRIES
(51) International classification :G06T11/00
(31) Priority Document No :61/231702
(32) Priority Date :06/08/2009
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
(86) International Application No
Filing Date
(87) International Publication No : NA
(61) Patent of Addition to Application
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Filing Date
(62) Divisional to Application Number
Filing Date
:PCT/IB2010/053093
:06/07/2010
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(71)Name of Applicant :
1)KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
Address of Applicant :GROENEWOUDSEWEG 1
EINDHOVEN 5621 BA NETHERLANDS
(72)Name of Inventor :
1)SOWARDS-EMMERD David
2)NORTMANN Charles
3)HANSIS Eberhard
4)GRASS Michael
(57) Abstract :
In accordance with one aspect of the invention a method and apparatus for generating complete scout scans with CT imaging
devices having offset detector geometries is provided. In accordance with another aspect of the invention a method and apparatus
for increasing the reconstructable field of view for CT imaging devices having offset detector geometries is provided. In
accordance with another aspect of the invention a method and apparatus for image reconstruction for region of interest and fullbody
imaging with CT imaging devices having offset detector geometries is provided. In accordance with another aspect of the
invention a combined x-ray and SPECT imaging system is provided.
No. of Pages : 38 No. of Claims : 15
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