US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 20 for "Photon counting x-ray computed tomography apparatus, reconstruction processing apparatus, and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium storing therein photon counting information obtaining program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,310, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photon counting x-ray computed tomography apparatus, reconstruction processing apparatus, and non-volatile computer-readable storage medium storing therein photon counting information obtaining program" was invented by Masaharu Tsuyuki (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a photon counting detector and a time digital converter. The photon counting detector outputs a pulse corresponding to photons included in an X-ray, and the time digital converter obtains time information corresponding to timing ...