US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 9 for "Material weighting of projection based spectral x-ray imaging" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,393, issued on June 9, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Material weighting of projection based spectral x-ray imaging" was invented by Johannes Loberg (Stockholm), Martin Sjolin (Stockholm), Mats Persson (Vasterhaninge, Sweden), Fredrik Gronberg (Stockholm), Bjorn Cederstrom (Stockholm) and Daniel Collin (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for projection based spectral X-ray imaging, such as computed tomography (CT) imaging, the system and method comprising performing projection based material decomposition based on spectral X-ray data to generate a set of material basis sinogram...