US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 25 for "X-ray CT apparatus and tomographic image generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,442, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray CT apparatus and tomographic image generation method" was invented by Taiga Goto (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an X-ray CT apparatus and a tomographic image generation method capable of reducing a difference in a sum of weights for each projection angle in a tomographic image.There is provided an X-ray CT apparatus including: a projection data acquisition unit configured to acquire projection data of a subject; a reconstruction weight calculation unit configured to calculate a reconstruction weight based on the projection data; and an...