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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2018
Ibex Innovations Limited, Sedgefield, GB;
Neil Loxley, Sedgefield, GB;
Paul Scott, Sedgefield, GB;
IBEX INNOVATIONS LIMITED, Sedgefield, GB;
Abstract
An x-ray imaging method comprises the steps of: providing a set of at least one training material, the set comprising different materials and/or different thicknesses of the or each material; obtaining observed x-ray images of the at least one training material with a pixellated detector; building a database in a simulator of simulated scatter kernels for variable parameters within the simulator for each of the at least one training material; generating a transfer function between parameters of the simulator and parameters of the observed image which is independent of sample type and thickness; generating a whole image scatter estimate; predicting the direct radiation for each scatter kernel; applying the transfer function to the scatter estimate and the direct radiation or the inverse of the transfer function to the observed intensity values; performing the calculation Z−S−D<threshold to provide scatter free data and/or a scatter free image.