US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for scatter estimation in computed tomography imaging systems" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,825, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for scatter estimation in computed tomography imaging systems" was invented by Yujie Lu (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Jian Zhou (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scatter estimation in a CT including a detector having multiple detector pixels includes: obtaining projection data by scanning an imaging object; reconstructing image data from the projection data; estimating, based on the projection data, a first scatter distribution; selecting, based on the first scatter dist...