Patent Document ID: 9119555
Application ID: 12666406
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Method for correcting an acquired medical image of a patient having an internal body structure, said acquired image having a region of interest showing a representation of said internal body structure, said acquired image having been acquired in a medical imager having a radiation source and a radiation detector spaced from one another along an image-taking direction, and between which the patient is disposed, wherein the method comprises: a) obtaining, via at least one computer processor, from the acquired image stored in a non-transient computer-readable information storage medium in operative connection with the at least one computer processor, a corrected image taking into account a position of the internal body structure along the image-taking direction, by: determining said position of the internal body structure along the image-taking direction, using said position of the internal body structure along the image-taking direction to calculate the magnification factor corresponding to said position, and resizing said acquired image according to said calculated magnification factor to obtain said corrected image.