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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2015
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for providing a visualization image and a reference image for a patient, with only one reconstruction being implemented, raw scan data from the patient are reconstructed into a visualization image, and the reference image is generated, without another reconstruction, by applying a filter to the visualization image to obtain a simulated reference image, using a value of a filter parameter that is specific for the patient. The patient-specific filter parameter is determined by comparing image-derived properties of an accessed, previously-reconstructed reference image and the reference image, and the filter parameter is adapted to reduce differences in the image-derived properties of the respective images.