US 12,458,302 B2
Systems and methods for processing and visualizing tube current modulations in medical imaging devices
Thomas Buelow, Grosshansdorf (DE); Tim Philipp Harder, Ahrensburg (DE); Hrishikesh Narayanrao Deshpande, Hamburg (DE); Axel Saalbach, Hamburg (DE); Christopher Brian Martel, Cambridge, MA (US); and Stewart Matthew Young, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 18/558,646
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 28, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/061343
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 2, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/233704, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/184,294, filed on May 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0237955 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 6/03 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/032 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for visualizing tube current modulations in a patient scan, the method comprising:
accessing one or more x-ray tube current values for a portion of the patient scan, the one or more x-ray tube current values corresponding to x-ray tubes used to perform the portion of the patient scan;
mapping the accessed one or more x-ray tube current values to an area of a scout scan associated with the patient scan; and
applying a transformation function to the area of the scout scan to yield a transformed scout scan, the transformation function based on the accessed tube current values;
wherein the area of the scout scan contrasts adjacent other areas of the scout scan when displayed to a user.