Patent Document ID: 7983465
Application ID: 12118351
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An imaging system, comprising: a plurality of detectors each so configured as to generate a signal which is used to make measurements of an object along a respective projection; a translating table so configured as to receive an object thereon and operable to translate in relation to the plurality of detectors; a signal processor so coupled to the plurality of detectors as to receive and process the signals generated by the detectors; the signal processor being so configured as to extract relevant information in accordance with an imaging modality of the imaging system; an acquisition system so coupled to the signal processor as to collect the information extracted by the signal processor and information about an actual position of the translating table; the acquisition system being so configured as to produce projection data; and an image reconstructor so coupled to the acquisition system as to receive the projection data and reconstruct an image in response to the projection data; the image reconstructor being so configured as to reconstruct the image by: choosing a polar or cylindrical image definition which comprises a polar or cylindrical grid representation and basis functions defined over the polar or cylindrical grid in order to preserve symmetries between lines of response of the imaging system; computing a probability matrix that relates each of the projection data to each basis function of the polar or cylindrical grid representation; restructuring the probability matrix into a block circulant matrix; computing a polar or cylindrical image of the object using the block circulant matrix in Fourier domain; and converting the computed polar or cylindrical image into a Cartesian image representation to thereby obtain a reconstructed image of the object.