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Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2021
Applicant:

Oulun Yliopisto, Oulu, FI;

Inventors:

Miika Nieminen, Oulu, FI;

Mikael Brix, Oulu, FI;

Juuso Ketola, Oulu, FI;

Satu Inkinen, Oulu, FI;

Assignee:

OULUN YLIOPISTO, Oulu, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2024.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatus, method and computer program code for processing computed tomography (CT) scan data is disclosed. The method includes: receiving () a real sinogram from a CT scanning of a region of interest of a subject; receiving () shape data representing anatomic contours of a body part containing the region of interest of the subject; retrieving () a template sinogram from among a plurality of stored template sinograms based on the anatomic contours of the body part; performing () an image registration between the real sinogram and the template sinogram to obtain a registered template sinogram; and generating () an enlarged sinogram from the real sinogram by adding the non-overlapping parts from the registered template sinogram.


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