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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2020
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventor:
Yasuhiro Imai, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/468 (2013.01); A61B 6/5211 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide a technique with which dose indices can be managed for body parts in a range to be imaged on a body part-by-body part basis, an X-ray CT apparatus comprises: image producing unit () for producing a scout image () of a patient; defining unit () for defining a range () to be imaged in the scout image (); segmenting unit () for segmenting the range () to be imaged into two body parts; identifying unit () for identifying which one of body parts () included in a human body each of the two body parts corresponds to; and calculating unit () for calculating a dose index for each of the two body parts.