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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2015
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Hanno Heyke Homann, Hannover, DE;
Frank Bergner, Hamburg, DE;
Klaus Erhard, Hamburg, DE;
Henning Per Johan Berglund, Sundbyberg, SE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for tomosynthesis imaging, the device comprising: a mask generator module () configured to generate a binary mask based on a geometric three-dimensional model of a scanned object; an image capturing module () configured to scan a series of two-dimensional projection images of the object; and an image processing module () configured to apply the generated binary mask during a reconstruction of a three-dimensional image volume from the scanned series of two-dimensional projection images and to restrict an extent of the reconstructed image volume to the extent of the geometric model.