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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided to reconstruct an image using combined third-generation energy-integrating computed tomography projection data and fourth-generation spectrally resolved computed tomography projection data. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain first projection data representing projection data from an energy-integrating detector; obtain second projection data representing projection data from a photon-counting spectrally discriminating detector; and reconstruct a first combined-system basis image and a second combined-system basis image by solving a combined-system matrix equation using the first projection data and the second projection data.