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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2019
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Patrick A. Helm, Milton, MA (US);
Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen, Baltimore, MD (US);
Ali Uneri, Baltimore, MD (US);
Wojciech Zbijewski, Baltimore, MD (US);
Xiaoxuan Zhang, Baltimore, MD (US);
Joseph W. Stayman, IV, Baltimore, MD (US);
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
Selected artifacts, which may be based on distortions or selected attenuation features, may be reduced or removed from a reconstructed image. Various artifacts may occur due to the presence of a metal object in a field of view. The metal object may be identified and removed from a data that is used to generate a reconstruction.