Patent ID: 9320477
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A Computed Tomography (CT) system comprising: a rotatable gantry having an opening to receive an object to be scanned; an x-ray source configured to project an x-ray beam toward the object, the x-ray beam having a primary intensity; a detector configured to detect energy from the x-ray beam passing through the object and output imaging data; a data acquisition system (DAS) connected to the detector and configured to receive the imaging data; and a computer programmed to: wherein the scatter function comprises a function of the form  that represents a level of scatter of the x-ray beam as a function of transmission intensity, where I(β) is the x-ray beam transmission intensity along the x-ray transmission direction indicated by the angle β, ƒ(I(β)) is an adaptive function, and I