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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2021
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
David E. Miller, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pierre Guntzer, Strasbourg, FR;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for determining radiation doses based on phantom matching are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory to store computer readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to prompt a capture of a second scout image when at least one of: (A) a first anatomical landmark in a first scout image of a first scout image file does not include an organ, (B) a first set of dimensions of the first anatomic landmark in the first scout image cannot be determined, or (C) the first set of dimensions are outside of a predefined range; and calculate a radiation dose for an organ in a second anatomical landmark of a second scout image file corresponding to the second scout image.