US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 17 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,719, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Keisuke Yamakawa (Kashiwa, Japan) and Taiga Goto (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method that can reduce the noise bias of a corrected image in which high absorber artifacts included in a reconstructed image are corrected. The medical image processing apparatus has an arithmetic unit for correcting high absorber artifacts. The arithmetic unit comprises: a projection data generating section that genera...