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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jiang Hsieh, Brookfield, WI (US);
Brian Edward Nett, Madison, WI (US);
Pavaana Sainath, Oconomowoc, WI (US);
Debashish Pal, Waukesha, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided. The method includes acquiring a first dataset at a first energy spectrum and a second dataset at a second energy spectrum. The method also includes extracting a metal artifact correction signal using the first dataset and the second dataset or using a first reconstructed image and a second reconstructed image generated respectively from the first and the second datasets. The method further includes performing metal artifact correction on the first reconstructed image using the metal artifact correction signal to generate a first corrected image.