Patent ID: 9649079
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01T,G06K,G06T,G09B

Claim:
1. A method of determination a radiation dose applied to different anatomical stages of an exposed subject with diagnostic image acquisition by an image acquisition system, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring a two-dimensional frontal planar view scout image associated with the exposed subject acquired with the image acquisition system; calculating with a computer processor a contour of an extremity of the exposed subject from the two-dimensional frontal planar view scout image; calculating a contour of a first organ dependent on a greyscale intensity of the plurality of pixels that comprise the two-dimensional frontal planar view scout image; calculating a contour of at least one anatomical stage dependent on a predefined geometric orientation relative the contour of the first organ; applying a predefined auxology criteria to calculate a contour of a second organ dependent on a predefined geometric orientation relative to the contour of the at least one anatomical stage; and create a display illustrative of a measurement of dose applied at the area defined by the contour of the at least one anatomical stage.