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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus, Niskayuna, NY (US);
David Allen Langan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Taylor Robert Braun-Jones, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/005 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Approaches are disclosed for removing or reducing metal artifacts in reconstructed images. The approaches include creating a metal mask in the projection domain, interpolating data within the metal mask, and perform a reconstruction using the interpolated data. In certain embodiments the metal structure is separately reconstructed and combined with the reconstructed volume.