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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2023
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
James Liu, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Jon Lea, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Naveen S. Chandra, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Kai Niu, Sandy, UT (US);
GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
A system and method for performing a dual energy subtraction imaging process on a fixed or mobile fluoroscopy imaging system for pulmonary imaging applications is provided. The dual energy subtraction image processing system includes a processor configured to operate a radiation source of a fluoroscopy imaging system in a pulsed manner to obtain a number of high energy (HE) frames, to form an HE image from the number of HE frames, to operate the radiation source of the fluoroscopy imaging system in a continuous manner to obtain a number of low energy (LE) frames, to form an LE image from the LE frames, and to employ the HE image and the LE image in a dual energy subtraction imaging process to output a number of enhanced contrast images. The processor is also configured to operate the detector in continuous manner to obtain the HE frames and the LE frames.