ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,673, issued on June 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Reduction of artefacts in medical images" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany) and Bernhard Johannes Brendel (Norderstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for generating an artefact estimation image that represents the effect of cone-beam artefacts in a computed tomography (CT) image. This is achieved by identifying the position of gradients (being sudden changes of intensity) in an axis of the CT image parallel to a rotation axis of the CT system that generated the CT image, where each gradient represents a...