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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;

Inventors:

Matthias Lichy, Nuremberg, DE;

Sebastian Schmidt, Weisendorf, DE;

Assignee:

Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/009 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30096 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is for setting a contrast of a multi-energy CT image representation. In an embodiment of the method, a plurality of multispectral image datasets of an examination region of a patient are received. Furthermore, an automated identification of a structure to be examined is achieved based upon the multispectral image datasets and an automated combining of the differently weighted multispectral image datasets is accomplished such that the contrast between the structure to be examined and its environment is improved compared to a uniform weighting. Further, a multi-energy CT imaging method is described. An image setting device is also described. In addition, a computed tomography system is described.


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