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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Joerg Bredno, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sven Prevrhal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eberhard Sevastian Hansis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David Sowards-emmerd, San Jose, CA (US);
Joerg Bredno, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sven Prevrhal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eberhard Sevastian Hansis, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David Sowards-Emmerd, San Jose, CA (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
When correcting for artifacts on an attenuation map caused by an artifact source in a computed tomography image, nuclear images are reconstructed two or more times, each time using a different correction technique or uncorrected attenuation data. Corresponding voxels in the reconstructed images are compared to identify local areas that change, i.e., are fragile and therefore low-confidence, and areas that do not vary or exhibit little variance among the plurality of reconstructed images and are thus accorded a higher confidence. The reconstructed nuclear image is overlaid with color encoding indicative of the amount of confidence accorded to each voxel value obtained by attenuation-corrected tomographic reconstruction.