Patent Document ID: 9153045
Application ID: 13802852
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing executable instructions comprising: a reconstruction element configured to generate a first set of cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) images from data provided from the CT scan; a tissue suppression component configured to identify values of pixels within the first set of cross-sectional CT images, representing tissues that it is desirable to suppress according to their characteristic attenuation values; an averaging component configured to generate a second set of cross-sectional CT images, having an associated axial resolution less than an axial resolution of the first set of cross-sectional CT images, a voxel-by-voxel averaging of a subset of the first set of cross-sectional CT images, the voxel-by-voxel averaging omitting any voxels in the subset of the first set of cross-sectional CT images that is identified at the tissue suppression component; and a user interface configured to provide the set of cross-sectional CT images to a user at an associated display.