US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 20 for "Method for X-ray imaging, X-ray imaging system, and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,856, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for X-ray imaging, X-ray imaging system, and computer program product" was invented by Boris Stowasser (Erlangen, Germany) and Philipp Bernhardt (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an X-ray imaging procedure, an input image and an input mask image are generated on the basis of first and second detector data of an X-ray flat panel detector. By applying noise suppression, a mask signal image and a signal image are generated on the basis thereof. By calculating the difference between the signal image and the mask signal image,...