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

Claim 20:
21. A mammography system, comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of projection data sets at a plurality of projection angles; and
a generation unit configured to
select a projection data set from among the plurality of projection data sets as an average intensity projection,
generate at least one synthetic mammogram based on the average intensity projection and at least one projection data set from among the plurality of projection data sets, 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, 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.