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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2018
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Yao-jen Chang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Birgi Tamersoy, Erlangen, DE;
Susanne Oepping, Erlangen, DE;
Ralf Nanke, Neunkirchen, DE;
Terrence Chen, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
An automation method is disclosed for an X-ray tube scanner having an X-ray tube and an X-ray detector. The method allows the X-ray tube scanner to detect the X-ray detector's plane with an object to be imaged placed on the X-ray detector; determine a boundary box of the object to be imaged on the X-ray detector; determine the object's center position and orientation on the X-ray detector's plane; transfer the object's center position from the object's coordinate system to the X-ray tube's coordinate system; and estimate the X-ray tube control parameters for aligning the X-ray field emitted from the X-ray tube's collimator to the object's center position and the object's orientation on the X-ray detector.