US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on July 28 for "Dynamic control of x-ray exposure using focal spot translation" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,824, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Dynamic control of x-ray exposure using focal spot translation" was invented by Scott S. Hsieh (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring x-ray data from a subject and generating a computed tomography (CT) image of the subject includes receiving a set of illumination field data including an illumination field produced by each of a plurality of focal spot positions of an x-ray source, selecting at least one sequence of at least two illumination fields based on at least one subject-specific parame...