ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,275, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).
"X-ray CT apparatus and method" was invented by Hiroaki Miyazaki (Otawara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes a photon counting detector that outputs a signal that enables measurement of an energy value of an X-ray photon incident thereon, and processing circuitry configured to determine a time to make a transition from a prescan to a main scan by estimating, from projection data, an amount of a contrast agent present on an X-ray path including a monitored region set for a subject in the ...