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Method for combining images and magnetic resonance scanner

US8712186B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Benjamin Michael Glocker · Munich, DE
Nassir Navab · Munich, DE
Christian Wachinger · Munich, DE
Jochen Zeltner · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 31, 2009
Grant date	Apr 29, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 24, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30004
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of combining a first image of a first region and a second image of a second region, having an overlapping region therebetween. The method including determining a superposed image as a weighted superposition of the first image and the second image in the overlap region, transforming the first image and the second image on the basis of a comparison of at least one of the first image and the second image with the determined superposed image; determining a further superposed image from the transformed first image and the transformed second image; and generating an overall image from the further superposed image when at least one convergence criterion is satisfied.

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