Patent ID: 9427194
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A computed tomography (CT) imaging system comprising: a rotatable gantry having a bore therethrough; at least one two-dimensional pixelated imaging detector coupled to the rotatable gantry; a movable patient table configured to move along an examination axis through the bore of the rotatable gantry; and a controller configured to control a speed of the movable patient table through the bore along the examination axis and a rotation speed of the gantry based on gated cardiac information to perform an overlapping helical CT scan using the at least one two-dimensional pixelated imaging detector rotating about the bore such that each rotation of the gantry is synchronized to occur within a select number of cardiac cycles for a patient being imaged, wherein the select number is at least three, the controller acquires additional cardiac image data adjacent to an identified R-wave if a corresponding preceding or following beat is at least one of missing, defective, or unidentified.