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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Matthew David Kelly, Botley, GB;
Inventor:
Matthew David Kelly, Botley, GB;
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10104 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20216 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method to generate a nuclear medicine image reconstructed from an average of multiple subsets of acquired counts of a dataset, having an image quality characteristic aligned with that of a corresponding image obtained from a reconstruction of all counts of the dataset, a phantom data acquisition is used to determine an appropriate post-processing step necessary to align each image quality characteristic which provides a desired alignment of a given image quality characteristic. The determined post-processing step is applied to the combination of the multiple reconstructions.