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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2015
Applicants:

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Inventors:

Gerhard Kleinszig, Forchheim, DE;

Jeffrey Siewerdsen, Baltimore, MD (US);

Sebastian Vogt, Monument, CO (US);

Adam Wang, Baltimore, MD (US);

Assignees:

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4085 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of generating a preview of at least one low-dose x-ray image includes the followings steps: obtaining an initial volumetric representation of a patient from an x-ray device; creating at least one x-ray image projection from the initial volumetric representation; injecting correlated noise into at least one of the x-ray image projections; and processing the noise-injected x-ray image projections to create at least one preview of a patient-specific low-dose x-ray for showing to a user. There are also described a device for generating at least one preview of a low-dose x-ray image, a corresponding imaging system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium.


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