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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Dominic Joseph Crotty, Waukesha, WI (US);
Roy A. Nilsen, Waukesha, WI (US);
Jiahua Fan, New Berlin, WI (US);
Mary Sue Kulpins, Brookfield, WI (US);
Franco Rupcich, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Grant Morey Stevens, Kaysville, UT (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for automatic exposure control in computed tomography imaging systems. In one embodiment, a method comprises in response to an object-specific dose metric input by a user via a user interface operably coupled to a scanner, predicting an image quality of a diagnostic scan, calculating an output level of a source of the scanner for the image quality, and performing the diagnostic scan at the output level when the image quality is higher than a threshold. In this way, patient-specific image quality settings may be determined.