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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2012
Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Bangalore, IN;
Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Florian Wiesinger, Freising, DE;
Sandeep Suryanarayana Kaushik, Bangalore, IN;
Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Bangalore, IN;
Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Florian Wiesinger, Freising, DE;
Sandeep Suryanarayana Kaushik, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes performing a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging sequence to acquire MR image slices or volumes of a first station representative of a portion of a patient; applying a first phase field algorithm to the first station to determine a body contour of the patient in the first station; identifying a contour of a first anatomy of interest within the body contour of the first station using the first phase field algorithm or a second phase field algorithm; segmenting the first anatomy of interest based on the identified contour of the first anatomy of interest; correlating first attenuation information to the segmented first anatomy of interest; and modifying a positron emission tomography (PET) image based at least on the first correlated attenuation information.