Method and apparatus for digital subtraction angiography

X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices – Specific application – Absorption

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ABSTRACT:
A locally-adaptive method for obtaining sub-pixel registration of mask and opacified digital X-ray images includes the steps of match point generation, locally-adaptive image-to-image warp generation, and log subtraction, for generating a DSA image. Specifically, in match point generation, a set of two-dimensional points in the mask image and their corresponding points in the opacified image are derived. After match point generation, locally-adaptive image-to-image warp generation is performed using the image-to-image match points; that is, a transformation function is generated that maps the matched points in the mask image to their corresponding points in the opacified image. The generated transformation is then applied to the mask image data and the logarithm of the pixel value in the transformed (i.e., warped) mask image is subtracted from the logarithm of the corresponding pixel value in the opacified image.

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