US 12,080,405 B2
Method for creating a three-dimensional medical image
Alois Regensburger, Poxdorf (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG, Forchheim (DE)
Filed by Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on Oct. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/971,759.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 212 141.1 (DE), filed on Oct. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129687 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G16H 30/40 (2018.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 30/40 (2018.01) [A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61N 7/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for creating a three-dimensional medical image of an examination object taking into consideration at least one cavitation bubble in the examination object, the at least one cavitation bubble including at least one of at least one temporally variable cavitation bubble or at least one spatially variable cavitation bubble, and the at least one cavitation bubble being caused by at least one ultrasound pulse emitted into the examination object by an ultrasound system, wherein the method comprises:
acquiring a multiplicity of projection images of the examination object with a medical imaging system, the medical imaging system being in synchronization with the ultrasound system;
determining at least one cavitation bubble projection image from the multiplicity of projection images as a function of the synchronization, the at least one cavitation bubble projection image being a projection image of the multiplicity of projection images in which the at least one cavitation bubble is mapped;
determining a multiplicity of corrected projection images, wherein the at least one cavitation bubble projection image, in the multiplicity of projection images, is replaced by a corrected projection image;
reconstructing the three-dimensional medical image as a function of the multiplicity of corrected projection images; and
provisioning the three-dimensional medical image.