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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2007
Henri Souchay, Versailles, FR;
Ibrahima Faye, Courbevoie, FR;
Razvan Gabriel Iordache, Paris, FR;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In a method for the obtaining a tomosynthesis image for a more selective detection of radiology signs, a dose distribution strategy is proposed. The strategy is defined as a function of a substantially uniform depth-of-focus for a variety of sizes and classes of radiology signs. This strategy is coupled with a digital filtering aimed at ensuring optimum propagation of the signal-to-noise ratio beyond the frequency spectrum. This digital filtering is done by means of a class of adaptive filters required to control the propagation of the noise during the reconstruction. The filter to be applied to each projection of the X-ray tube () depends on the dose assigned to this projection.