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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. 17, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2006
Applicants:
Amiaz Altman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Galit Naveh, Haifa, IL;
Raz Carmi, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus includes a computed tomography (CT) scanner (), a reconstructor (), a polychromatic corrector (), a material classifier () and an image processor (). The scanner provides spectral CT information. The reconstructor () reconstructs the data from the CT scanner () into a volume space. The material classifier () determines a material composition of locations in the volume space as a function of their location in an attenuation space. Information indicative of the material composition is presented on a display ().