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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Nicole Schadewaldt, Norderstedt, DE;
Heinrich Schulz, Hamburg, DE;
Michael Guenter Helle, Padenstedt, DE;
Steffen Renisch, Hamburg, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A device, system and method for generating one or more simulated CT images from MR images, including retrieving MR image data for one or more body parts of a living being, said MR image data including a plurality of pixels and/or voxels, analyzing said MR image data to identify one or more tissue and/or material types for one or more of said plurality of pixels and/or voxels, registering one or more reference data sets to said identified one or more tissue and/or material types, said reference data sets corresponding to a specific one of said identified tissue and/or material types, said reference data sets including reference values, and computing one or more simulated CT images by assigning said reference values to said pixels and/or voxels corresponding to said identified one or more tissue and/or material types.