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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Inventor:
Joshua M. Polster, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/003 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); G06T 11/008 (2013.01); G06T 2211/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for computer tomography (CT) imaging. An attenuation transform component configured to map voxels in a received set of cross-sectional CT images to associated brightness values according to a piecewise transform function to produce a set of transformed images. A user interface is configured to provide the set of transformed images to a user at an associated display.