ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,441, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method for use in CT reconstruction" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preprocessing cone beam projection data acquired using a dual x-ray focal spot acquisition approach in which projection data is acquired over a series of angular positions of the CT scanner about a body, and wherein at least two angularly displaced x-ray sources (focal spots) are alternately activated as the scanner rotates orbitally around the body. The pre-processing involves a resampling of the projection data...