DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 21, 39, 40 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by BREHM (Pub. No.: US 2017/0249740A1).
With respect to claim 21:
BREHM discloses a system, comprising: at least one storage device storing executable instructions (parag. 0194, 0196-0197 discloses a storage device), and at least one processor (parag. 0056 discloses a processor) in communication with the at least one storage device, when executing the executable instructions, causing the system to perform operations including: obtaining projection data of a subject (parag. 0050 and 0060 discloses obtaining image….i.e. projection data of a subject); determining one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters associated with personalized data of the subject based on the projection data (parag. 0061-0063); and reconstructing, according to the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters, one or more target images of a target subject based on at least a portion of the projection data (parag. 0003, 0060, 0080 discloses reconstructing the images or projection data of the subject).
With respect to claim 39:
BREHM discloses a method implemented on a computing device having one or more processors (parag. 0056 discloses a processor) and a computer-readable storage medium (parag. 0194, 0196-0197 discloses a storage device), the method comprising: obtaining projection data of a subject (parag. 0050 and 0060 discloses obtaining image…. i.e. projection data of a subject); determining one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters associated with personalized data of the subject based on the projection data (parag. 0061-0063); and reconstructing, according to the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters, one or more target images of a target subject based on at least a portion of the projection data (parag. 0003, 0060, 0080 discloses reconstructing the images or projection data of the subject).
With respect to claim 40
BREHM discloses a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instruction (parag. 0194, 0196-0197 discloses a storage device), the instructions, when executed by at least one processor (parag. 0056 discloses a processor), causing the at least one processor to implement a method comprising: obtaining projection data of a subject (parag. 0050 and 0060 discloses obtaining image….i.e. projection data of a subject); determining one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters associated with personalized data of the subject based on the projection data (parag. 0061-0063); and reconstructing, according to the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters, one or more target images of a target subject based on at least a portion of the projection data (parag. 0003, 0060, 0080 discloses reconstructing the images or projection data of the subject).
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
The factual inquiries for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claims 22, 34 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over BREHM (Pub. No.: US 2017/0249740A1) as applied to claim 21 above, and further in view of Thibault (Pub. No.: US 2019/0108441).
With respect to claim 22:
The rejection of claim 21 is incorporated; BREHM does not explicitly disclose wherein the determining one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters based on the projection data includes: determining the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters by inputting the projection data into a first trained machine learning model.
Thibault discloses determining the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters by inputting the projection data into a first trained machine learning model (parag. 0006-0008).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill at the time the invention was made to utilize the teaching of BREHM into the teaching of Thibault in order to generate a final image corresponding to a computationally intensive algorithm from an input image generated using a less computationally intensive algorithm.
With respect to claim 34:
Thibault discloses the system of claim 21, wherein the one or more adaptive reconstruction parameters include at least one of an FOV, a reconstruction center, a thickness of a reconstruction slice, a phase of interest, or a reconstruction kernel (parag. 0065 discloses FOV which is field of view).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 23-33, 35-38 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/AJIBOLA A AKINYEMI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2649