| US 7,599,466 B2 | ||
| Operating method for X-ray equipment | ||
| Jan Boese, Eckental (Germany); and Günter Lauritsch, Erlangen (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (Germany) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 07, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/400,833. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10 2005 016 472 (DE), filed on Apr. 08, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0030945 A1, Feb. 08, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 378—8 [378/4; 378/15] | 18 Claims |

| 1. A method of operating X-ray equipment, comprising:
repeatedly pivoting an X-ray arrangement about a pivot axis at a pivoting speed between a first and a second final angular
position, by a control device, the X-ray arrangement comprising an X-ray source and an X-ray detector diametrically opposed
to each other relative to the pivot axis;
providing a phase signal representing a phasing of an examination object to the control device;
controlling the X-ray arrangement during the pivoting such that the X-ray detector only acquires projections of an iteratively
moving examination object during selected time windows in time periods based on the phase signal at a plurality of acquisition
points in time and at a plurality of angular positions of the X-ray detector, the examination object arranged in a range of
the pivot axis;
transmitting the acquired projections to the control device by the X-ray detector;
storing the transmitted projections and the respective angular positions, by the control device;
assigning to each stored projection a phase information element related to the phasing of the examination object, by the control
device;
selecting a phase position, and a maximum allowable deviation therefrom, relative to the phase signal for three dimensional
reconstruction of the object;
selecting from the projections those projections having phase positions within the maximum allowable deviation from the selected
phase position;
determining for each selected projection the respective angular position of the X-ray detector; and
calculating a three-dimensional reconstruction of the examination object from the selected projections and the determined
respective angular positions for use in a medical examination.
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