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Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2016
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventor:

Akira Hagiwara, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/005 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01);
Abstract

To reduce streak-like artifacts more in a radiation tomographic image: There is provided an image producing apparatus comprising: a processing component configured to, in scan data acquired by a radiation CT scan, apply suppression processing with which noise components are suppressed to a high noise level portion having a radiation detection level lower than a specified threshold, and apply enhancement processing with which noise components are enhanced to a low noise level portion having a radiation detection level equal to or higher than the specified threshold; and a reconstructing component configured to reconstruct an image based on the scan data subjected to the processing by the processing component.


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