TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE THEREOF

Title:

TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE THEREOF

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2016/076525

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A tomography apparatus that may reduce partial scan artifacts includes: a data acquirer configured to acquire tomography data when X-rays are emitted as a cone beam to an object while rotating by one cycle angular section that is less than one rotation; and an image reconstructor configured to reconstruct a tomography image by using corrected tomography data that is obtained by applying to the tomography data a weight that is set based on at least one of a view that is included in the one cycle angular section and a cone angle in the cone beam.

Inventors:

LEE KYOUNG-YONG (KR)
NAM SANG-NAM (KR)
LEE DUHGOON (KR)

Application Number:

PCT/KR2015/009852

Publication Date:

May 19, 2016

Filing Date:

September 21, 2015

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Assignee:

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD (KR)

International Classes:

A61B6/03; G06T5/00

Foreign References:

US20090028288A1	2009-01-29
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US20080273780A1	2008-11-06
JP2004254773A	2004-09-16
KR20090078513A	2009-07-20

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