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- Patent Title: Creating monochromatic CT image
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Application No.: US15931292Application Date: 2020-05-13
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Publication No.: US11324466B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Sodai Tanaka , Hiroki Shirato
- Applicant: National University Corporation Hokkaido University
- Applicant Address: JP Sapporo
- Assignee: National University Corporation Hokkaido University
- Current Assignee: National University Corporation Hokkaido University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sapporo
- Agency: Nixon Peabody LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-092373 20190515
- Main IPC: A61B6/00
- IPC: A61B6/00 ; A61B6/03 ; G06T7/11 ; H05G1/64

Abstract:
An image processor applies computation processing to a plurality of CT images formed by irradiation of radiation of a plurality of energy levels to acquire monochromatic CT images. The image processor acquires a first energy level CT image formed by irradiation of first energy level radiation and a second energy level CT image formed by irradiation of second energy level radiation, applies a plurality of weighted computations to the first and second energy level CT images to compute a plurality of monochromatic CT images as a result of the weighted computations, segments a surrounding region of a highly-absorbent material circumferentially into a plurality of regions of interest having a predetermined area and calculates a standard deviation of the surrounding region by using a mean value of image data of each region of interest, for each monochromatic CT image, and selects a monochromatic CT image with a small standard deviation.
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