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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2010
Sarah Bond, Oxfordshire, GB;
Xiao-bo Pan, Oxfordshire, GB;
Sarah Bond, Oxfordshire, GB;
Xiao-Bo Pan, Oxfordshire, GB;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for processing medical imaging data of a subject are disclosed, the data having a physiological or anatomical feature of interest, from a first set of the imaging data, an intensity projection line along a specified axis of an image volume of the data is generated. The projection line is converted to a monogenic signal and phase information extracted from the signal. A function of the phase information is calculated, and the thus processed phase information is used to locate the feature of interest in the first data set, or to register the feature of interest with a second data set.