US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Medical image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,560, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and medical image processing method" was invented by Hana Tochibori (Yokohama, Japan), Shun Uematsu (Nasushiobara, Japan), Hideaki Kutsuna (Kawasaki, Japan) and Kensuke Shinoda (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains input medical image data having a larger image region than that of output medical image data resulting from image processing; generates first intermediat...