Patent ID: 8842897
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for the quantification of the image quality of at least one tomographic picture of an object, the method comprising the steps of: recording at least one tomographic cross-sectional image using cross-sectional magnetic-resonance imaging; determining, as measure for the image quality in a cross-sectional image, the width of a boundary between two adjacent areas in which the signal intensity is constant at least within predetermined or predeterminable boundaries; determining a signal intensity in the first of the two adjacent areas automatically; averaging the determined signal intensity over a plurality of intensity measurements within the first area; averaging a signal intensity in the second of the two adjacent areas over a plurality of intensity measurements within the second area; and defining with the two determined signal intensities an interval that is divided into three equally sized subintervals of which the middle subinterval defines a transition region of intensities that are not assigned to any of the two areas.