US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 16 for "Time phase determination apparatus and time phase determination method" (Chinese, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,704, issued on June 16, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Time phase determination apparatus and time phase determination method" was invented by Chunqi Wang (Beijing), Hong Yang (Beijing) and Yutaka Hoshiyama (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time phase determination apparatus according to an embodiment is a time phase determination apparatus for determining the range of a particular time phase in a contrast-enhanced image, and includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires medical images at a plurality of different timings. The processing circuitry extracts a plural...