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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Zhye Yin, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xiaoyu Tian, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/02 (2006.01); H05G 1/28 (2006.01); A61N 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/28 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/4035 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to projection-based volumetric dose estimation for X-ray systems, such as X-ray imaging systems. For example, in one embodiment, an X-ray system is capable of estimating an X-ray dose based on an energy interaction of the X-rays with respective portions of an object. In another embodiment, the X-ray dose estimate may be provided on a per voxel, per region, and/or per organ basis.