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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Gilad Shechter, Haifa, IL;
Inventor:
Gilad Shechter, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes generating landmarks, for different compositions of materials in scanned structure, wherein a landmark represents a location of a composition of materials, distorted by beam hardening, in a multi-energy Hounsfield Unit space and using the landmarks to perform an image domain material separation and quantification free of beam hardening artifacts.