Patents by Inventor Johan SUNNEGAARDH

Johan SUNNEGAARDH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230196640
    Abstract: A method for movement compensation during CT reconstruction, comprises calculating slice images. The calculating slice images comprising: selecting an initial movement state; calculating a reference voxel position in relation to the initial movement state; calculating a column image position of a voxel; ascertaining a changed movement state of the voxel at the column image position; calculating a changed voxel position in relation to the changed movement state; calculating a changed image position of the voxel; and using an image value of the intermediate image at the changed image position for back projection to calculate the slice images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Johan SUNNEGAARDH, Nora Steinich, Harald Schoendube
  • Patent number: 11568585
    Abstract: A method for the artifact correction of three-dimensional volume image data of an object is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving first volume image data via a first interface, the first volume image data being based on projection measurement data acquired via a computed tomography device, the computed tomography device including a system axis, and the first volume image data including an artifact including high-frequency first portions in a direction of a system axis and including second portions, being low-frequency relative to the high-frequency first portions, in a plane perpendicular to the system axis; ascertaining, via a computing unit, artifact-corrected second volume image data by applying a trained function to the first volume image data received; and outputting the artifact-corrected second volume image data via a second interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Schoendube, Johan Sunnegaardh
  • Patent number: 11080853
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for calculating an image matrix size N for reconstructing image data of an examination subject from projection data. The method includes acquiring projection data obtained during a relative rotational movement between a radiation source of a computed tomography system and the examination subject; calculating the image matrix size N as a function of an extent of an axial field of view of the computed tomography system and a sharpness value in the image data to be reconstructed; and making the calculated image matrix size available to a reconstruction unit to reconstruct the image data from the projection data acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Ute Feuerlein, Martin Petersilka, Rainer Raupach, Johan Sunnegaardh
  • Publication number: 20200258221
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for calculating an image matrix size N for reconstructing image data of an examination subject from projection data. The method includes acquiring projection data obtained during a relative rotational movement between a radiation source of a computed tomography system and the examination subject; calculating the image matrix size N as a function of an extent of an axial field of view of the computed tomography system and a sharpness value in the image data to be reconstructed; and making the calculated image matrix size available to a reconstruction unit to reconstruct the image data from the projection data acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Ute FEUERLEIN, Martin PETERSILKA, Rainer RAUPACH, Johan SUNNEGAARDH
  • Publication number: 20200193656
    Abstract: A method for the artifact correction of three-dimensional volume image data of an object is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving first volume image data via a first interface, the first volume image data being based on projection measurement data acquired via a computed tomography device, the computed tomography device including a system axis, and the first volume image data including an artifact including high-frequency first portions in a direction of a system axis and including second portions, being low-frequency relative to the high-frequency first portions, in a plane perpendicular to the system axis; ascertaining, via a computing unit, artifact-corrected second volume image data by applying a trained function to the first volume image data received; and outputting the artifact-corrected second volume image data via a second interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Schoendube, Johan SUNNEGAARDH
  • Patent number: 8005287
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reconstructing CT image data. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing measured CT projection data p based on the CT projection data p, reconstructing first CT image data fk=1, and on the basis of the first image data fk=1 iteratively generating k+1-th CT-image data according to the formula: fk+1=fk??(Q(Pfk?p)+?R(fk)) until the standard ?fk+1?fk?2 is ?n, with the reconstruction operator Q containing a noise weighting according to Q=B·Wstatist.·H. Aside from suppressing “cone” artifacts, the proposed method of at least one embodiment indicates a significant reduction in the image noise even after a few iterations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Grasruck, Karl Stierstorfer, Johan Sunnegårdh