Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Radiation tomography apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 辐射断层扫描仪
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Application No.: US13522192Application Date: 2010-01-15
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Publication No.: US08948339B2Publication Date: 2015-02-03
- Inventor: Daisuke Notohara , Kazuyoshi Nishino
- Applicant: Daisuke Notohara , Kazuyoshi Nishino
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/000208 WO 20100115
- International Announcement: WO2011/086604 WO 20110721
- Main IPC: A61B6/03
- IPC: A61B6/03 ; A61B6/02 ; A61B6/06

Abstract:
One object of this invention is to provide a radiation tomography apparatus for acquiring a tomographic image from a plurality of fluoroscopic images. The radiation tomography apparatus can acquire the tomographic image having superior visibility without being influenced by a shadow of a collimator appearing in the fluoroscopic image when radiation is applied only to a portion of an FPD through control of the collimator. In this invention, a boundary between a shadow area where the shadow of the collimator appears in the fluoroscopic image and a non-shadow area is identified, and the shadow area in the fluoroscopic image is complemented by the non-shadow area, etc., whereby a complement image is generated. Then the complement image is used for generating the tomographic image. According to this invention, an extremely dark area where the shadow of the collimator appears is removed and thereafter the tomographic image is generated. As a result, the tomographic image has superior visibility with no blurring due to the shadow of the collimator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130216020A1 RADIATION TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-08-22
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