Patent Document ID: 9332907
Application ID: 13852029
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for segmentation in multi-modal reconstruction of functional information, the method comprising: obtaining computed tomography (CT) data representing a region of a patient; converting the CT data to linear attenuation coefficients; segmenting, with the linear attenuation coefficients, locations in the region into at least five types of anatomical tissue, the locations comprising zones segmented between respective types of the anatomical tissue; generating separate zonal image objects for each of the zones from the functional information; reconstructing, with a processor, the functional information into an image object, the reconstructing including separately forward projecting the functional information for each zone into data space, wherein a contribution of each zone to a data model is weighted according to a zonal scaling factor for the respective zones; and generating an image as a function of the image object.