US Patent Issued to Canon on June 2 for "X-ray computed tomography apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,494, issued on June 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"X-ray computed tomography apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yoshinori Hirano (Chiba, Japan) and Ryuta Ueda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes an X-ray tube configured to radiate X-rays; a detector configured to detect X-rays radiated by the X-ray tube and passed through a subject; a reconstruction processing unit configured to reconstruct imaging data output by the detector and generate CT image data and material decomposi...