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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2007
Applicants:
Deborah Joy Walter, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Yanfeng Du, Rexford, NY (US);
Kelly Lynn Piacsek, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Inventors:
Deborah Joy Walter, Terre Haute, IN (US);
Yanfeng Du, Rexford, NY (US);
Kelly Lynn Piacsek, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging scanner includes a radiation source, a radiation detector, and a computer programmed to decompose CT data acquired by the radiation detector into a set of pixels, each pixel having at least a first basis material content and a second basis material content. The computer is further programmed to identify a first subset of the set of pixels as a possible embolism, based on the content of the first basis material and the content of the second basis material.