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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2012
Mingqing Chen, Iowa City, IA (US);
Yefeng Zheng, Dayton, NJ (US);
Kerstin Mueller, Erlangen, DE;
Christopher Rohkohl, Bochum, DE;
Günter Lauritsch, Nürnberg, DE;
Jan Boese, Eckental, DE;
Gareth Funka-lea, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Mingqing Chen, Iowa City, IA (US);
Yefeng Zheng, Dayton, NJ (US);
Kerstin Mueller, Erlangen, DE;
Christopher Rohkohl, Bochum, DE;
Günter Lauritsch, Nürnberg, DE;
Jan Boese, Eckental, DE;
Gareth Funka-Lea, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Background information is subtracted from projection data in medical diagnostic imaging. The background is removed using data acquired in a single rotational sweep of a C-arm. The removal may be by masking out a target, leaving the background, in the data as constructed into a volume. For subtraction, the masked background information is projected to a plane and subtracted from the data representing the plane.