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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2021
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Guang-Hong Chen, Madison, WI (US);
Ke Li, Middleton, WI (US);
Assignee:
WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/42 (2024.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01); G06T 2211/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for creating computed tomography (CT) images includes acquiring or accessing sinogram data and determining a photon count for the sinogram data. The method includes generating unbiased sinogram data from the sinogram data using an unbiased estimator and the photon count and reconstructing a CT image from the unbiased sinogram data.