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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2023
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Yirong Yang, Stanford, CA (US);
Jiahua Fan, New Berlin, WI (US);
Carrigan Hudgins, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Brody Desilva, San Jose, CA (US);
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for reconstructing images within a photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) system. In an example, a method comprises, during a scan of an imaging subject, obtaining photon counts from a detector element of a photon-counting detector of the PCCT system, the photon counts partitioned into a plurality of energy bins based on an energy imparted by each photon on the detector element; encoding the photon counts at the plurality of energy bins of the detector element into a single scalar output value, the single scalar output value representing a distribution of spectral information across the energy bins; and reconstructing an image from projection data acquired via the photon-counting detector, the projection data including the single scalar output value generated at the detector element; wherein a basis material decomposition process is not performed during image reconstruction.