Invention Grant
- Patent Title: X-ray CT apparatus and image processing apparatus
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Application No.: US14789371Application Date: 2015-07-01
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Publication No.: US09610055B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Hiroki Taguchi , John Gulik
- Applicant: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Otawara-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2014-136599 20140702
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A61B6/00 ; G06T11/00 ; G06T5/50 ; G06T11/60 ; G06T5/00 ; A61B6/03 ; A61B6/06

Abstract:
The X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, a high-voltage power supply, an X-ray detector and a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reconstructs, as a first image, any of a monochromatic X-ray image and a polychromatic X-ray image on a basis of pre-reconstruction data acquired by scanning an object, the polychromatic X-ray image being taken in a first X-ray energy band. The processing circuitry reconstructs, as a second image, a polychromatic X-ray image taken in a second X-ray energy band wider than the first X-ray energy band on a basis of a pre-reconstruction data acquired by scanning the object. The processing circuitry identifies an area of a correction target in the first image as a correction area. The processing circuitry corrects the correction area in the second image on a basis of the first image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160000396A1 X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-01-07
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