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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2010
Applicants:

Matthias Bertram, Aachen, DE;

Jens Wiegert, Aachen, DE;

Kevin M. Brown, Mentor on the Lake, OH (US);

Inventors:

Matthias Bertram, Aachen, DE;

Jens Wiegert, Aachen, DE;

Kevin M. Brown, Mentor on the Lake, OH (US);

Assignee:

Koninklijke Philps N.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05G 1/64 (2006.01); G01T 1/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/02 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes generating, via a dose estimator, a dose map indicative of an estimated dose deposited in a subject based on acquisition protocol parameter values of an acquisition protocol of an imaging system, and generating, via a noise estimator, at least one of a noise map indicative of an estimated image noise based on the acquisition protocol parameter values or a contrast-to-noise map based on the noise map and an attenuation map. The method further includes displaying, via a display, the dose and noise maps in a human readable format.


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