US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for performing automatic exposure control in CT imaging systems" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,376, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for performing automatic exposure control in CT imaging systems" was invented by Yujie Lu (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ting Xia (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing automatic exposure control in a computed tomography (CT) imaging system including an X-ray source is provided. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to acquire helical scan data from a scout scan performed on a first imaging object, determine a target noise standard deviatio...