US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 24 for "Photon counting CT apparatus and method of controlling photon counting CT apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,044, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Photon counting CT apparatus and method of controlling photon counting CT apparatus" was invented by Akira Nishijima (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting CT apparatus of an embodiment has a detector module including a semiconductor detector and first processing circuitry configured to process detection data detected by the semiconductor detector. The first processing circuitry is configured to generate heat by performing a pseudo operation during a period in which X-ray exposure is stopped."

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