Patent ID: 11877879
Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE LIMITED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for generating at least one synthetic mammogram, the method comprising:
acquiring a plurality of projection data sets at a plurality of projection angles;
generating the at least one synthetic mammogram, the at least one synthetic mammogram having an image property essentially equivalent to a conventional full-field digital mammography acquisition, the image property being at least one of a dynamic range, a contrast or a brightness, the generating including selecting a projection data set from among the plurality of projection data sets as an average intensity projection, and the generating being based on the average intensity projection and at least one projection data set from among the plurality of projection data sets; and
imprinting a selected image impression setting onto the at least one synthetic mammogram, the selected image impression being based on an image impression of the conventional full-field digital mammography acquisition.