US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 6 for "X-ray CT apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,677, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"X-ray CT apparatus" was invented by Yuji Okajima (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shuya Nambu (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Hiroaki Miyazaki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes a photon-counting X-ray detector including a plurality of pixels and processing circuitry configured to acquire first data in a resolution priority mode from a first pixel set out of the pixels, acquire second data in an energy decomposition mode from a second pixel set, which is different from the first pixel set, out of the pixels at sampling int...