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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2016
Washington University IN St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (US);
Hua Li, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Sasa Mutic, Creve Coeur, MO (US);
Mark Anastasio, St. Louis, MO (US);
Washington University, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A method for optimizing a CT simulation protocol for different size patients for contouring and segmentation of organs and tumors. The method scanning different size phantoms, cadavers, or patients with a CT scanning x-ray tube to create a set of images and to create data sets for each different size phantoms, cadavers, or patients and then calculating an image quality index (IQI) as a benchmark for contouring accuracy. Finding an optimal IQI that characterizes patients of different sizes and using the optimal IQI to determine the accuracy of the contouring and segmentation of A CT simulation protocol for a patient.