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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth S Denison, Shaker Hts., OH (US);
William Sattin, Cleveland Hts., OH (US);
Assignee:
Picker International, Inc., Highland Hts., OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 54 ; 382-6 ; 358111 ;
Abstract
An MRI or other scanner (A) generates medical diagnostic data d(x,y) which has a Gaussian noise distribution for reconstruction by an imager (B) into an electronic image representation P(i,j) which may have a Gaussian or Rayleigh noise distribution. An image improving circuit (C) replaces each image pixel value P(i,j) from an image reconstruction means (32) with an improved pixel value P*(i,j) defined as follows: