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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Lin Fu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Sathish Ramani, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Jie Tang, New Berlin, WI (US);
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jed Douglas Pack, Glenville, NY (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Ge Wang, Troy, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, Troy, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to image reconstruction with favorable properties in terms of noise reduction, spatial resolution, detail preservation and computational complexity. The disclosed techniques may include some or all of: a first-pass reconstruction, a simplified datafit term, and/or a deep learning denoiser. In various implementations, the disclosed technique is portable to different CT platforms, such as by incorporating a first-pass reconstruction step.