US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for reconstructing image acquisitions for extended fields-of-view" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,646, issued on June 30, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Method and apparatus for reconstructing image acquisitions for extended fields-of-view" was invented by Michael D. Ketcha (Brookline, Mass.) and Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reconstructing an extended FOV image of an imaging volume of a gantry of an X-ray imaging system includes: generating first projected and interpolated padding data for a first image of a central region of the imaging volume based on a first image of an annulus region of the imaging volume surrounding the central region; generating a ...