Four dimensional spiral volume imaging using fast retrace

Details Four dimensional spiral volume imaging using fast retrace Four dimensional spiral volume imaging using fast retrace

1993-10-19

1995-03-07

McElheny, Jr., Donald E.

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G06F 1542

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ABSTRACT:
A subject in an examination region (14) moves axially as an x-ray source (12) rotates therearound. Views corresponding to a spiral path around a volume of interest in the patient are sampled, interpolated (46), and reconstructed (54) into a three-dimensional image representation (56). This process is repeated a plurality of times to generate a plurality of three-dimensional image representations of the same volume at time displaced intervals. The plurality of image representations are temporally interpolated (110) to generate a series of image representations, each one of which represents the same time or time interval, i.e., a four-dimensional image representation that is linear in all four dimensions. Preferably, a contrast agent is injected into the patient such that the data represents the movement of contrast agent through the volume of interest. A reference image representation (126) of the volume of interest with no contrast agent is subtracted (124) from the four-dimensional image representation to generate a four-dimensional image (128) of the movement of the contrast agent through the volume of interest.

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