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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2005
Sergey Simanovsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Zhengrong Ying, Wakefield, MA (US);
Carl R. Crawford, Brookline, MA (US);
Sergey Simanovsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Zhengrong Ying, Wakefield, MA (US);
Carl R. Crawford, Brookline, MA (US);
Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of and a system for splitting a compound object using multi-energy CT data including a density and an atomic number measurements are provided. The method comprises: compound object detection; computing a two-dimensional DZ distribution of a compound object; identifying clusters within the DZ distribution; assigning a component label to each object voxel based on the DZ distribution clusters; and post-processing the set of voxels identified as belonging to each component.