ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,344, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"X-ray CT apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Ninomiya (Kashiwa, Japan) and Kana Kobayashi (Kashiwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray CT apparatus includes a rotating plate that causes an X-ray source and an X-ray detector to rotate around a subject, an image generation section that generates a tomographic image of the subject based on a detection signal. A controller controls each unit and has a modulation pattern setting section that sets a modulation pattern used for modulation of an emission dose, which is an X-ray dose emitted from the X-ray source whi...