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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Fang Liu, Madison, WI (US);
Hyungseok Jang, Madison, WI (US);
Richard Kijowski, Verona, WI (US);
Tyler Bradshaw, Madison, WI (US);
Alan McMillan, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); G06T 5/001 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 11/008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10104 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10124 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for creating positron emission tomography (PET) images. The method includes receiving at least one PET image of a subject created from PET data acquired from the subject, creating an attenuation correction map using the at least one PET image, and reconstructing PET data using the attenuation correction map and the at least one PET image to generate an attenuation corrected PET image.