1Application for patent filed June 07, 1995. According to
the appellant, this application is a continuation o
08/405,396, filed March 15, 1995, w07/991,050, filed December
15, 1992.
brief:
Heuscher ‘946 [B] discloses a data “combining”
operation, but fails to disclose or suggest
interpolation of data from different arrays. In
Heuscher ‘946 [B], columns 11-13, reference is made
only to weighting and filtering or averaging (column
12, lines 40-44, and column 13, lines 8-10).
Moreover, in the multiple mode, the three slices are
separately processed (column 13, lines 21, 22) as
opposed to combining detector array data for
processing to slice images.
In column 2, lines 56-60, Heuscher ‘946 [B]
discloses interpolation between corresponding data
from more that two spirals of revolution, but fails
to disclose interpolation of data from two spirals
of revolution associated with the respective (two)
detector arrays.
At column 3, lines 53-59, Heuscher ‘946 [B]
makes reference to two or more interleaved data
spirals, but no reference is made to the use of two
detector arrays with collected data being
interpolated between the two arrays. Similarly, at
column 10, line 57 - column 11, line 2, Heuscher
‘946 [B] only references three interleaved spirals
without any disclosure regarding interpolation.
In column 5 at lines 3-20, Heuscher ‘946 [B]
describes the detectors 26a and 26b, but these
detectors are operated such that data from
corresponding center detector cells and
corresponding side detector cells are combined to
produce a set of data. Accordingly, this Heuscher
‘946 [B] operation employs a combination process,
but does not employ an interpolation process in
which interpolation is performed between the data of
one array and the data of another array as disclosed
and claimed for the invention.
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