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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Fmi Medical Systems Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, CN;

Inventors:

Chuang Miao, Macedonia, OH (US);

Abdelaziz Ikhlef, Hudson, OH (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/035 (2013.01); A61B 6/40 (2013.01); A61B 6/4233 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01); A61B 6/545 (2013.01); A61B 6/583 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computed tomography (CT) system includes a rotatable gantry having an opening to receive an object to be scanned, a high-voltage generator, an x-ray tube positioned on the gantry to generate x-rays through the opening, a pixelated detector positioned on the gantry to receive the x-rays, and a computer. The computer is programmed to obtain a scout image of the object, calculate an equivalent diameter of a water cylinder based on the scout image over a length of the scout image, calculate a major axis and a minor axis for an equivalent ellipse over the length, calculate, based on a noise index and based on the equivalent diameter as the function of the length, an mA modulation as a function of the length, and obtain image data of the object by modulating an mA applied to the x-ray tube based on the calculated mA modulation.


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Miao, Chuang. (2019). Method and apparatus for modulating x-ray tube current in computed tomography (U.S. Patent No. 10492751). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10492751

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