Marcus HENNIX,Hakan NORDSTROM,Markus Eriksson,Jonas ADLER,David JAFFRAY,Gregory BOOTSMA,Frank VERHAEGEN,Bjorn NUTTI
申请号:
US15106081
公开号:
US20160314584A1
申请日:
2014.12.18
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要:
Embodiments disclose a method performed by at least one processor for processing a plurality of x-ray projection images of a subject, the method comprising a plurality of operations including reconstructing the projection images to yield a volume reconstruction; segmenting the reconstructed volume by assigning a material type to each voxel; estimating a first set of scatter images corresponding to a subset of the projection images by calculating probabilistic predictions of interactions of x-rays with the subject and applying a low pass spatial filter to the scatter images; estimating a second set of scatter images corresponding to projection images not included in the subset, based on the first set of scatter images; and subtracting, for each projection image, the corresponding scatter image to yield a corrected projection image. Applying the plurality of operations of the method in an iterative process on graphics-processor-quality computational hardware enables real-time scatter correction and reconstruction of CT volume images.