公开(公告)号：US10398397B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US14587522

申请日：2014-12-31

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY ,  Gustave Roussy

Inventor： Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller ,  Razvan Gabriel Iordache ,  Sylvie Saab-Puong ,  Ann-Katherine Carton ,  Clarisse Dromain

IPC: A61B6/00 ,  A61B6/02 ,  A61B6/12 ,  A61B10/04

Abstract: In the present invention, an imaging system and method for providing contrast-enhanced X-ray images of tissue includes an energy source in communication with a detector operable to generate radiological images of the tissue injected with the contrast agent, a display and a computer connected to the display and to receive the acquired images from the detector. The system is operable to acquire a number of first images of the contrast agent in the tissue, wherein the number of first images are single energy images, and a number of second images corresponding to the number of first images, wherein the second images are each a single energy image with an energy level opposite that for the first images. The first and second images are combined to generate a contrast-enhanced image with reduced exposure of the tissue and reduced time for completion of the procedure.

公开(公告)号：US10032294B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-24

申请号：US14978460

申请日：2015-12-22

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Sylvain Bernard ,  Razvan Gabriel Iordache ,  Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller ,  Giovanni John Jacques Palma ,  Ann-Katherine Carton ,  Pablo Milioni de Carvalho

IPC: G06T11/00 ,  A61B6/02 ,  A61B6/00

Abstract: Method and system for obtaining tomosynthesis and material decomposition images of an object of interest using a system comprising an x-ray source facing a detector. The method comprises generating a 2D material decomposition image of an object of interest from at least two sets of acquisitions. Each set is performed at a different energy spectrum and comprises at least one projection image or a plurality of projection images acquired at different x-ray source angulation positions, and the 2D material decomposition image can be generated for a predetermined orientation selected from one of said different x-ray source angulation positions or from a virtual orientation. At least one of the plurality of 3D volume portion images and/or the 2D contrast enhanced material decomposition image are displayed for review by a health care professional.

公开(公告)号：US20180174341A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15381704

申请日：2016-12-16

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Giovanni Palma ,  Pablo Milioni De Carvalho ,  Ann-Katherine Carton ,  Razvan Lordache ,  Serge Muller

IPC: G06T11/60 ,  G06T7/38 ,  G06T7/10 ,  G06T7/00 ,  A61B6/00 ,  A61B6/02

CPC classification number: G06T11/60 ,  A61B6/025 ,  A61B6/0414 ,  A61B6/463 ,  A61B6/469 ,  A61B6/481 ,  A61B6/482 ,  A61B6/502 ,  A61B6/5235 ,  A61B6/5241 ,  A61B6/5247 ,  A61B8/0825 ,  A61B8/403 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/469 ,  A61B8/5253 ,  A61B8/5261 ,  A61B2090/364 ,  A61B2090/376 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06T2210/41 ,  G06T2219/2016

Abstract: In the present invention, an image review method and system for performing the method is provided to facilitate the review of image volumes obtained in different imaging modalities and to evaluate the correlation between findings in the respective volumes in an easy to review manner compared with prior art systems and processes. The method and system of the invention provides simulated or actual combined or fused images or representations of registered images obtained in each imaging modality to simplify and accelerate the review of multi-modal breast imaging volumes, in particular when correlation of information between the two modes, including but not limited to, LE and DE, DBT and ABUS, DE and ABUS, etc., is important to evaluate.