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US08503750B2 Method and apparatus for reduction of metal artifacts in CT images
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减少CT图像中金属伪影的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for reduction of metal artifacts in CT images
- Patent Title (中): 减少CT图像中金属伪影的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12574502Application Date: 2009-10-06
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Publication No.: US08503750B2Publication Date: 2013-08-06
- Inventor: Thomas Matthew Benson , Naveen Chandra , David Allen Langan
- Applicant: Thomas Matthew Benson , Naveen Chandra , David Allen Langan
- Applicant Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Niskayuna
- Agent Scott J. Asmus
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03

Abstract:
A method and apparatus include acquisition of a view dataset based on x-rays received by a detector corresponding to a energy level, reconstruction of an initial image using the view dataset, the initial image comprising a plurality of metal voxels at respective metal voxel locations, and generation of a metal mask corresponding to the plurality of metal voxels within the initial image. The method and apparatus also include forward projection of the metal mask onto the view dataset to identify metal dexels in the view dataset, performance of a weighted interpolation based on the identified metal dexels to generate a completed view dataset, reconstruction of a final image using the completed view dataset, the final image comprising a plurality of image voxels corresponding to the metal voxel locations, and replacement of a portion of the plurality of image voxels corresponding to the metal voxel locations with smoothed metal values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110081071A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCTION OF METAL ARTIFACTS IN CT IMAGES Public/Granted day:2011-04-07
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