US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Method for multi-energy X-ray imaging, X-ray facility, treatment system, computer program and electronically readable data carrier" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,114, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for multi-energy X-ray imaging, X-ray facility, treatment system, computer program and electronically readable data carrier" was invented by Stanislav Tashenov (Heroldsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for multi-energy X-ray imaging of a field of view in order to display a contrast material, located in the field of view, having an atomic number of at least 65, (e.g., at least 73), and/or a k-edge of at least 60 keV. In the method, two image datasets having different X-ray spectra are recorded and are combined ...