ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,027, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Tuning method for collimator, controller, collimator and CT machine" was invented by Jia Peng Zhu (Shanghai), Li Dong Zhang (Shanghai), Jian Zhang (Shanghai), Ji Feng Zhao (Shanghai) and Feng Hai Yu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tuning method for a collimator of a CT machine, which, in each cycle of X-ray scan operation and stop, may include determining whether an X-ray is generated from the anode plate; calculating the Z-direction heating displacement of the slot plate during the current scan based on a detected X-ray, driving the slo...