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Title:
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY HIGH DENSITY OBJECT ARTIFACT REDUCTION
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2011172926
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To suitably compensate for artifacts due to high density materials in dental CT imaging (computed tomography imaging) or the like.

A method of providing a corrected reconstructed CT image includes: accessing data for CT images of a subject, identifying the images that includes high density features; detecting and classifying the high density feature in each of the high density features image 704; and forming a compensation image 804 by distributing pixels representative of tissue over the classified high density feature. A difference sinogram WsM is generated for each high density features image 704 by subtracting a sinogram M of the high density features image 704 from a sinogram W of the original image 702 (step 308), a final sinogram WsMaP is generated by adding a sinogram P generated according to the compensation image to the difference sinogram WsM (step 310), and the corrected reconstructed CT image is formed according to the final sinogram WsMaP (step 312).


Inventors:
CHEN SHOUPU
RAY LAWRENCE A
Application Number:
JP2011035464A
Publication Date:
September 08, 2011
Filing Date:
February 22, 2011
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Assignee:
CARESTREAM HEALTH INC
International Classes:
A61B6/03; A61B6/14
Domestic Patent References:
JPH0819533A1996-01-23
JP2002153454A2002-05-28
JP2007520300A2007-07-26
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Patent Corporation yki International Patent Office