US Patent Issued to National Atomic Research institute on Oct. 20 for "Method for reducing metal artifacts in CT images" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,311, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to National Atomic Research institute (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method for reducing metal artifacts in CT images" was invented by Chia-Hao Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hsiang-Ning Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing metal artifacts in CT images, including the following steps: a material decomposition (MD) calibration step, using multiple MD calibration phantoms with known characteristics and multiple spectral CT data corresponding thereto to construct a system characteristic model of spectral CT; and a MD testing step, including: the following steps: imaging multiple ...