US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 29 for "PCCT apparatus and control method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,973, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"PCCT apparatus and control method of the same" was invented by Shinichi Kojima (Tokyo), Kazuma Yokoi (Tokyo) and Isao Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a PCCT apparatus and a control method thereof capable of improving an interpolation accuracy related to substance discrimination and shortening a processing time.A PCCT apparatus includes: a scanner that rotates an X-ray source that irradiates a subject with X-rays and a photon counting detector that detects the X-rays transmitted through the subject for each of a plurality of energy bins aro...