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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2009
Yunqiang Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Ti-chiun Chang, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Sandra Knoth, Herzogenaurauch, DE;
Stefan Böhm, Oberasbach, DE;
Peter Durlak, Erlangen, DE;
Yunqiang Chen, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Ti-chiun Chang, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Sandra Knoth, Herzogenaurauch, DE;
Stefan Böhm, Oberasbach, DE;
Peter Durlak, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for temporally filtering medical images during a fluoroscopy guided intervention procedure includes providing a mask image, a fluoroscopy intervention image acquired at a current time during a medical intervention procedure, forming a subtraction image by subtracting the mask image from the intervention image, calculating a motion image of a moving structure in the subtraction image, forming a residual image by subtracting the motion image from the subtraction image, temporally filtering the residual image with a filtered image from a previous time, and adding the motion image to the temporally filtered residual image.