US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on April 14 for "Photon counting computed tomography apparatus and photon-counting CT-scanning condition setting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,346, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Photon counting computed tomography apparatus and photon-counting CT-scanning condition setting method" was invented by Hiroaki Miyazaki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting computed tomography apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry and a display. The processing circuitry is configured to set a scanning condition required in photon counting CT scanning based on the imaging mode related to photon counting CT scanning or based on the examination objective of performing the photon counting CT s...