Medical diagnostic method and apparatus to control dual energy exposure techniques based on image information

摘要

A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a method and apparatus for optimized dual energy image acquisition. The system comprises a dual energy medical imaging system, a detector, a user interface, an image segmentation module, a characterization module, and a control module. The method comprises obtaining an image from a first exposure of a patient and segmenting the image into an anatomy of interest. The method further comprises characterizing the segmented anatomy in terms of a set of patient parameters and optimizing a second exposure of the segmented anatomy based upon said anatomy and the characterization of the anatomy. A resulting anatomy image is obtained from analysis of the first and second exposures.