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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Applicant:
Tom Bertens, Perk, BE;
Inventor:
Tom Bertens, Perk, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa HealthCare NV, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5241 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/482 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); A61B 6/5229 (2013.01); A61B 6/5235 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20224 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of generating a bone and a soft tissue image of an object includes a dual energy radiography technique wherein weight parameters for calculating these images as a weighted sum of a low energy image Pand a high energy image Pare deduced from a ratio image Log(P)/Log(P).