Siemens Healthineers International Ag

Philippe Messmer

Pascal Paysan

Dieter Marc Seghers

Adam Michal Strzelecki

Mathieu Plamondon

Igor Peterlik

Peter Munro

A reconstructed volume of a region of patient anatomy is processed to reduce motion artifacts in the reconstructed volume. Autosegmentation of high-contrast structures present in an initial reconstructed volume is performed to generate a 3D representation of the high-contrast structures. 2D mask projections are generated by performing forward projection on the 3D representation, where each 2D mask projection includes location information indicating pixels that correspond to the high-contrast structures during the forward projection process. The acquired 2D projections are modified via in-painting to generate corrected 2D projections, where the acquired 2D projections are modified using information from the 2D mask projections. For example, pixels in the acquired 2D projections that are associated with high-contrast moving structures are replaced with low-contrast pixels. These corrected 2D projections are used to produce an improved reconstructed volume with fewer and/or less visually prominent motion artifacts.

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Philippe Messmer