US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for correcting material-induced effects in CT images" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,314, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for correcting material-induced effects in CT images" was invented by Markus Juergens (Adelsdorf, Germany) and Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting material-induced effects in CT images, comprising: providing a CT scan dataset including CT scan data of an object at at least two different energies; calculating a plurality of first material density values for a first substance type from the CT scan data of the CT scan dataset; calculating a plurality of correction factors based on...