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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Inventors:
Quanzheng Li, Cambridge, MA (US);
Georges El Fakhri, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G01T 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/005 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); G01T 1/1603 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for determining, from registered positron emission tomography (PET) sinogram data and magnetic resonance (MR) image data, an estimated attenuation sinogram uses a data consistency condition to evaluate a gradient of the PET sinogram data using the MR image data. An image of the subject is reconstructed using the estimate attenuation sinogram.