Invention Grant
- Patent Title: X-ray CT apparatus, reconstruction arithmetic device, and reconstruction arithmetic method
- Patent Title (中): X射线CT装置,重建运算装置和重建算法
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Application No.: US14778299Application Date: 2014-03-13
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Publication No.: US09592026B2Publication Date: 2017-03-14
- Inventor: Yuta Ogura , Ryota Kohara
- Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/056654 WO 20140313
- International Announcement: WO2014/167935 WO 20141016
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B6/03 ; G06T11/00 ; A61B6/04 ; G06K9/46 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
In order to provide an X-ray CT apparatus or the like capable of improving the image quality even with low-exposure scanning by reducing artifacts generated around high absorbers on an image while reducing the amount of image noise, a reconstruction arithmetic device 221 sets the number of iterations of iterative processing for correcting projection data, and calculates, as calibration coefficients, a correction coefficient β and an adjustment coefficient α for adjusting the application ratio of noise reduction processing f1 and signal strength maintenance processing f2 included in the iterative processing. By performing the iterative processing including the noise reduction processing f1 and signal strength maintenance processing f2 on the projection data based on the number of iterations and the calibration coefficients α and β, corrected projection data is created, and a CT image is reconstructed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160278733A1 X-RAY CT APPARATUS, RECONSTRUCTION ARITHMETIC DEVICE, AND RECONSTRUCTION ARITHMETIC METHOD Public/Granted day:2016-09-29
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