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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2021
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Paul Schleyer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Deepak Bharkhada, Knoxville, TN (US);
Harold E. Rothfuss, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mohammadreza Teimoorisichani, Knoxville, TN (US);
Dieter Ritter, Fürth, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A framework for gantry alignment of a multimodality medical scanner. First image data of a non-radioactive structure is acquired by using intrinsic radiation emitted by scintillator crystals of detectors in a first gantry of the multimodality medical scanner. Second image data of the non-radioactive structure is acquired using a second gantry for another modality of the multimodality medical scanner. Image reconstruction may be performed based on the first and second image data of the non-radioactive structure to generate first and second reconstructed image volumes. A gantry alignment transformation that aligns the first and second reconstructed image volumes may then be determined.