US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 4 for "Overlapping pixel summing scheme in the full size photon counting computed tomography (CT)" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,079, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Overlapping pixel summing scheme in the full size photon counting computed tomography (CT)" was invented by Xiaohui Zhan (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ilmar Hein (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Ruoqiao Zhang (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting detector (PCD) apparatus includes a PCD array including a plurality of micro-pixels positioned in at least one of a channel direction and a row direction; and processing circuitry configured to: receive signals from each of the plurality of micro-pixels; configure the PCD array to include (a) a first micro-pixel area i...