US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "PET-CT apparatus, medical image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,080, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"PET-CT apparatus, medical image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Shogo Ono (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PET-CT apparatus according to the embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry scans a subject to acquire an attenuation-correcting CT image, identifies a respiratory phase of the subject when the CT image is scanned, acquires PET scan data that is based on a gamma ray emitted from the subject, generates gate data by gating the PET scan data based on the respiratory phase, and re...