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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2014
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Hiroki Taguchi, Otawara, JP;
Satoru Nakanishi, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Abstract
Based on a plurality of detection data sets acquired by a data acquisition unit and correspond to respective tube voltages, an image generator generates a plurality of reference substance image data sets targeting respective reference substances contained in a subject. The image generator generates a correction data set for each of the plurality of tube voltages by applying, to a detection data set corresponding to each of the tube voltages, a correction coefficient for suppressing a discrepancy of an actual energy spectrum of the X-rays detected by an X-ray detector from a predetermined X-ray energy spectrum, and generates the plurality of reference substance image data sets based on a plurality of correction data sets corresponding to the respective tube voltages.