Method and system for substantially reducing ring artifact based upon ring statistics

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8929507
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13276551

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The current invention is generally related to an image processing method and system for substantially reducing ring artifacts. Using the attenuation data, the ring artifacts are substantially prevented based upon two-step process, and the second ring artifact reduction step removes the undesirable rings based upon previously determined statistical data including mean and standard deviation.

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TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION1385 SHIMOISHIGAMI OTAWARA-SHI TOCHIGI-KEN 324-8550

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Moghe, Sachin Northbrook, US 4 8
Silver, Michael D Northbrook, US 31 400

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