US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "X-ray CT apparatus with focal point correction based on energy" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,172, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"X-ray CT apparatus with focal point correction based on energy" was invented by Yasuo Saito (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) apparatus according to an embodiment includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to store therein a table keeping first information about an energy spectrum of X-rays in correspondence with second information about a focal point position of an X-ray tube. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain third information about an...