SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC DISPLAY FIELD OF VIEW IN MEDICAL IMAGING

Abstract: methods and systems are herein provided for automatic determination of display field of view (dfov) in medical imaging. in one example, a method comprises acquiring one or more scout images of a patient with an imaging system while the patient is positioned within a scanner of the imaging system; determining a body contour of the patient based on the one or more scout images; determining a widest dimension of the body contour; determining, based on the widest dimension, a display field of view (dfov); acquiring scan data of the patient with the imaging system; reconstructing the scan data based on the dfov to generate one or more reconstruction images; and displaying the one or more reconstruction images on a display device communicably coupled to the imaging system, wherein the patient remains within the scanner between acquisition of the one or more scout images and the scan data.

Inventor(s): Eli Stern, Lilach Shay Levi, Gali Elkin-Basudo

CPC Classification: G06T11/005 ({Specific pre-processing for tomographic reconstruction, e.g. calibration, source positioning, rebinning, scatter correction, retrospective gating})

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