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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2017
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
John Baumgart, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Martin Trini, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A system and method includes reception of a plurality of fill frames of a patient volume, each of the plurality of fill frames depicting a contrast medium within the patient volume at a respective time, identification, for each pixel location of the fill frames, of a fill frame whose pixel at the pixel location is associated with a pixel value which represents a greater level of contrast medium than the pixel values of pixels at the pixel location within the others of the plurality of fill frames, generation of a peak contrast fill frame corresponding to each fill frame, the peak contrast fill frame corresponding to a given fill frame including, at pixel locations for which the given fill frame was identified, pixels associated with pixel values of the given fill frame, and storage of the plurality of peak contrast fill frames.