US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 12 for "Computed tomography apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,654, issued on May 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Computed tomography apparatus" was invented by Sho Shimizukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Taneichi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoyuki Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation source includes a radiation tube having a cathode which is a cold cathode. An imaging control unit directs the radiation source to intermittently and alternately emit the first radiation having a first energy distribution and the second radiation having a second energy distribution different from the first e...