US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 10 for "X-ray CT apparatus and CT image reconstruction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,222, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray CT apparatus and CT image reconstruction method" was invented by Yoshiki Mori (Chiba, Japan), Yuta Ogura (Chiba, Japan), Ryota Kohara (Chiba, Japan) and Yusuke Tetsumura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce an unnatural distortion of an image that occurs in a case in which a high absorption body of X-rays is included in movement correction image reconstruction processing of a CT image.High absorption body presence or absence determination processing of determining whether or not a high absorption body of X-rays is included is added to movement co...