Patent ID: 9603576
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06T

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of depicting an airway tree of a patient, the method comprising: generating, by a computed tomography system, an iodine map of the airway tree from dual energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging data acquired from the patient; performing, by the computed tomography system, segmentation and modeling defining a region of interest of the airway tree for rendering from the DECT imaging data, the defined region of interest including at least a portion of the airway tree and excluding at least a different portion of the airway tree; then rendering the region of interest of the airway tree with information derived from the generated iodine map based on the airway segmentation and modeling from the DECT imaging data; and displaying a graphical image of the region of interest of the airway tree on a user interface.