General Electric Company

Vincent Adam

Saad Ahmed Sirohey

Maud Bonnard

Gopal Biligeri Avinash

Laurent Launay

Paul Edgar Licato

Steven M Zanoni

Olga Imas

Guillaume Neveux

Yannick Le Berre

Thierry Galas

An imaging system includes an imaging unit, a display unit, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire a first type of diagnostic imaging information of the patient; reconstruct a first image using the first type of diagnostic imaging information; if a first stop criterion for terminating imaging is not satisfied, acquire a second type of diagnostic imaging information having an increased level of acquisitional burden; reconstruct a second image; if a second stop criterion for terminating imaging is not satisfied, acquire a third type of diagnostic imaging information having an increased level of acquisitional burden, wherein the patient is maintained on a table of the imaging unit during the acquisition of the second type of diagnostic imaging information, reconstruction of the second image, and acquisition of the third type of diagnostic imaging information; reconstruct a third image; and display the third image.

Systems and methods for progressive imaging

A computed tomography (CT) imaging system includes a CT imaging unit, a display unit and at least one processor. The CT imaging unit includes an X-ray source and a CT detector. The at least one processor is operably coupled to the imaging unit and the display unit, and is configured to: acquire at least three phases of CT imaging information via the CT imaging unit; determine timing information for imaging intensity of blood vessels represented in the CT imaging information; assign corresponding colors to the blood vessels based on the timing information; reconstruct an image using the CT imaging information from the at least three phases, wherein the blood vessels depicted in the reconstructed image are represented using the corresponding colors based on the timing information; and display the image on the display unit.

Systems and methods for color visualization of CT images

A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a set of dynamic computed tomography image data from a computed tomography imaging system, registering the image data, applying a smoothing filter to at least a selection of the registered image data, and outputting the results. The smoothing filter may be, for example, a uniform filter, a triangular filter, a Gaussian filter, a median filter, a percentile filter, a Kuwahara filter, an anisotropic filter, or any combination thereof. Additional methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.

Smoothing of dynamic data sets

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