Methods, systems and processes for providing efficient, accurate and exact image reconstruction using portable and easy to use C-arm scanning devices and rotating gantries, and the like. The invention can provide exact convolution-based filtered back projection (FBP) image reconstruction by combining a curved scan of the object and a line scan of the object. The curved scan can be done before or after the line scan. The curved scan can be less than or greater than a full circle about an object being scanned.
This invention is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/728, 136, filed Dec. 4, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,010,079 which claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/430,802 filed, Dec. 4, 2002, and is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/389,534 filed Mar. 14, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,804,321 which is a Continuation-In-Part of Ser. No. 10/389,090 filed Mar. 14, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,771,733 which is a Continuation-In-Part of Ser. No. 10/143,160 filed May 10, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,574,299, which claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application 60/312,827 filed Aug. 16, 2001.
An X-ray CT device generates an X-ray beam in the shape of a cone along the body axis of a subject from an X-ray tube to the subject and detects the X-rays that pass the subject by a two-dimensional detection system during a linear track scan. In addition, the X-ray CT device detects X-rays from a relative rotation movement of the X-ray tube and the subject during the linear track scan under the same condition. A reconstruction device reconstructs an image by back projection of the data of the subject based on the X-rays detected in the two scans.
Methods, systems and processes for providing efficient, accurate and exact image reconstruction using portable and easy to use C-arm scanning devices and rotating gantries, and the like, that combines both a circle and a curve scan. The invention can provide exact convolution-based filtered back projection (FBP) image reconstruction by combining two curved scans of the object. The curved scan can be less than or greater than a full circle about an object being scanned. The invention can be done by a first curve within a first plane followed by a second curve within a second plane that is transversal to the first plane.
