Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining calcium content from spectral CT data
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Application No.: US16301477Application Date: 2017-06-14
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Publication No.: US10929974B2Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- Inventor: Dirk Schaefer , Heiner Daerr , Thomas Koehler , Ewald Roessl
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agent Larry Liberchuk
- Priority: EP16174535 20160615
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/064590 WO 20170614
- International Announcement: WO2017/216248 WO 20171221
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/00 ; G16H30/40 ; G06T11/00 ; A61B5/02

Abstract:
Present invention relates to devices and methods for determining a calcium content by analyzing cardiac spectral CT data. CT projection data (9), obtainable by scanning a cardiac region of a subject using a spectral CT scanning unit, is modelled (12) by applying a material decomposition algorithm to the projection data to provide a calcium-specific component. Tomographic reconstructions (13) of the projection data, to provide a first 3D image (8), and of the calcium-specific component, to provide a second 3D image (6), are performed. The first 3D image (8) is segmented (14) to provide an image mask (5) corresponding to a cardiovascular structure of interest, a part of the second 3D image (6) is selected (15) based on the image mask (5), and a calcium content is calculated (16) in the cardiovascular structure of interest based on the selected part of the second 3D image (6).
Public/Granted literature
- US20190295249A1 DETERMINING CALCIUM CONTENT FROM SPECTRAL CT DATA Public/Granted day:2019-09-26
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