Ge Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC

Priya Gopinath

Jiang Hsieh

Darin Robert Okerlund

Robert F Senzig

Jianying Li

Kishore Chandra Acharya

Holly A McDaniel

Matthew Joseph Walker

Kelly Lynn Karau

A method for obtaining data includes acquiring Computed Tomography (CT) scout data at a Z location with a first x-ray spectrum, and acquiring CT scout data at the Z with a second x-ray spectrum different from the first x-ray spectrum.

Methods and apparatus for generating CT scout images

A method for plaque characterization. The method comprises obtaining a first set of image data created in response to a first x-ray energy level and including a plurality of pixel elements. Each of the first pixel elements corresponds to a unique location in an object being scanned. The method further comprises obtaining a second set of image data created in response to a second x-ray energy level and including a plurality of second pixel elements. Each of the second pixel elements corresponds to one of the first pixel elements and the second x-ray energy level is higher than the first x-ray energy level. The method also comprises calculating a third set of image data in response to the first set of image data and the second set of image data. The calculating includes subtracting each second pixel element from the corresponding first pixel element.

Method, system and computer product for plaque characterization

A method and system for generating a plurality of clinically useful images in a short time frame using a single imaging system. The system and method include using a single computer tomography (CT) system for generating a scout image configured to prescribe a tomographic axial/helical or target image and processing the scout projection data of the scout image to generate an enhanced scout image. The enhanced scout image and the target image are displayed, wherein the enhanced scout image and said target image are clinically useful images for diagnostic purposes provided by the single imaging system. More specifically, the single CT generates the enhanced scout image resembling an x-ray radiograph and the target image as a CT scan image.

Method and system for trauma application of CT imaging

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