US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 8 for "X-ray imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,840, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray imaging apparatus" was invented by Takafumi Ishitsu (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an X-ray imaging apparatus capable of stabilizing polarization of a photon counting detector and suppressing ineffective exposure of a subject. An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises an X-ray source that irradiates an X-ray, a photon counting detector that counts an X-ray photon for each energy bin, and an image generation unit that generates a medical image of a subject based on a detector output from the photon counting detector. The X-ray imaging apparat...