US Patent Issued to CANON on July 7 for "X-ray CT apparatus, radiation detecting apparatus, and data processing method for x-ray CT apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,833, issued on July 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"X-ray CT apparatus, radiation detecting apparatus, and data processing method for x-ray CT apparatus" was invented by Motohiro Inoue (Otawara, Japan) and Hiroaki Miyazaki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, X-ray CT apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an energy integrating type detector, a time data generation circuit, and a projection data generation unit. The X-ray tube emits X-rays. The energy integrating type detector has a plurality of detector units arrayed in a channel direction that accumulate electric charges corresponding to X-r...