US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Dec. 23 for "Method for detecting and handling detector pixels with intermittent behavior for a small pixelated photon counting computed tomography (CT) system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,156, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Method for detecting and handling detector pixels with intermittent behavior for a small pixelated photon counting computed tomography (CT) system" was invented by Xiaohui Zhan (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ruoqiao Zhang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Cameron Clarke (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Yi Qiang (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for detection of defective pixels for a photon-counting detector-based computed tomography (CT) system is disclosed. In particular, the apparatus and the method disclosed herein, detect detecto...