US 11,666,301 B2
Data correction in X-ray imaging
Karl Stierstorfer, Erlangen (DE); Martin Petersilka, Adelsdorf (DE); Martin Hupfer, Erlangen (DE); Achim Hillenbrand, Erlangen (DE); Matthias Baer-Beck, Erlangen (DE); and Rainer Raupach, Heroldsbach (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/22,481.
Claims priority of application No. 19199855 (EP), filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0093286 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/585 (2013.01) [A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); A61B 6/583 (2013.01); G06T 11/005 (2013.01); G06T 11/008 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
creating a corrected output dataset via an imaging modality, the input dataset including at least one data error;
determining a correction function based on one or more characteristics of the imaging modality;
creating a corrected output dataset by applying the correction function to the input dataset; and
reconstructing an image based on the corrected output dataset, wherein
the correction function is configured to reduce at least two data errors that mutually influence one another in the input dataset.