Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2005-08-25
2011-10-25
Casler, Brian (Department: 3737)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
C600S410000, C324S307000, C324S309000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08046044
ABSTRACT:
The disclosure describes a technique for medical imaging, referred to herein as the Rapid Interleave Overlap Technique (RIOT), wherein image data is acquired as a plurality of series sequences in a manner that allows for unlimited overlap. RIOT involves interleaving and overlapping 2D image slices of multiple series of image data of the same ROI into a composite data set from which MPR and 3D reconstructions exhibiting excellent resolution properties and crisp image quality can be generated.
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El-Ghazzawy Omar G.
Prior Fred William
Stazzone Madelyn Milagros
Casler Brian
Shahrestani Nasir
Thompson & Coburn LLP
Washington University
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