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Computed tomography method, computer software, computing device and computed tomography system for determining a volumetric representation of a sample

US8526570B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH · DE

Inventors

Eberhard Neuser · Wunstorf, DE
Alexander Suppes · Garbsen, DE
Nils Rothe · Hürth, DE
Michael Hoetter · Gehrden, DE
Anja Frost · Bremen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 2010
Grant date	Sep 3, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 24, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2211/424
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computed tomography method for determining a volumetric representation of a sample comprises using reconstructed volume data of the sample from x-ray projections of the sample taken by an x-ray system, computing a set of artificial projections of said sample by a forward projection from said reconstructed volume data, and determining, essentially from process data of said reconstruction including said reconstructed volume data and/or said x-ray projections, individual confidence measures for single voxels of said volume data based on calculating, for each of said measured x-ray projections, the difference between the contribution of this measured x-ray projection to the voxel under inspection and the contribution from a corresponding artificial projection to the voxel under inspection.

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