Douglas Arthur Kieper,Stanislaw Majewski,Benjamin L. Welch
申请号：
US12913372
公开号：
USRE043499E1
申请日:
2010.10.27
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
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摘要：
An improved method for enhancing the contrast between background and lesion areas of a breast undergoing dual-head scintimammographic examination comprising: 1) acquiring a pair of digital images from a pair of small FOV or mini gamma cameras compressing the breast under examination from opposing sides 2) inverting one of the pair of images to align or co-register with the other of the images to obtain co-registered pixel values 3) normalizing the pair of images pixel-by-pixel by dividing pixel values from each of the two acquired images and the co-registered image by the average count per pixel in the entire breast area of the corresponding detector and 4) multiplying the number of counts in each pixel by the value obtained in step 3 to produce a normalization enhanced two dimensional contrast map. This enhanced (increased contrast) contrast map enhances the visibility of minor local increases (uptakes) of activity over the background and therefore improves lesion detection sensitivity, especially of small lesions.
