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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2008
Lyubomir Zagorchev, Lebanon, NH (US);
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
Ravindra Bhat, Eindhoven, NL;
Dennis E. Bos, Helmond, NL;
Lyubomir Zagorchev, Lebanon, NH (US);
Andrew Buckler, Wenham, MA (US);
Ravindra Bhat, Eindhoven, NL;
Dennis E. Bos, Helmond, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
When quantifying neo-vasculature growth measured using a CT scanner (), a known blood voxel is identified and adjoining voxels are compared thereto by a quantifier () to determine whether they are blood voxels, in order to grow a 3D image of the blood vessels. A removable Hounsfield calibration phantom () is positioned in a subject support () and concurrently scanned with the subject during each scan, and a Hounsfield unit calibrator () automatically calibrates acquired CT data to the phantom. A transport system comprising a plurality of movement-arresting locations facilitates cheaply and repeatably locking a CT detector (), in six degrees of movement, at a plurality of locations in the scanner gantry.