US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 25 for "X-ray CT apparatus, correction data collection method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,333, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray CT apparatus, correction data collection method, and storage medium" was invented by Masaharu Tsuyuki (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray CT apparatus of an embodiment includes a rotating unit and processing circuitry. The rotating unit is configured to rotatably hold the X-ray tube and the X-ray detector. The processing circuitry is configured to switch energy bin sets related to discrimination of photons detected by the X-ray detector between a first energy bin set and a second energy bin set in which at least a par...