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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Applicants:
Sebastien Gorges, Buc, FR;
Lionel Desponds, St. Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Vincent Bismuth, Paris, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/64 (2006.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for controlling the emission of an X-ray imaging device configured to take images of a patient's body, into which a medical instrument has been inserted, is provided. The method comprises: processing at least one image of the patient's body taken by the X-ray imaging device to extract information representing the instrument, wherein the at least one image comprises the instrument; and adapting X-ray emission parameters of the X-ray imaging device, depending on the information extracted from the at least one image, to minimize the X-ray dose emitted towards the patient's body.