US Patent Issued to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment on June 2 for "CT beam hardening correction method, CT beam hardening correction device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,495, issued on June 2, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"CT beam hardening correction method, CT beam hardening correction device, and storage medium" was invented by Guo Qing Zhang (Shanghai), Yang Wang (Shanghai), Wei Zhou (Shanghai) and Wen Hao Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for performing CT beam hardening correction. The CT beam hardening correction includes scanning a phantom to obtain measured projection data of the phantom and calculating corrected projection data of a measured object according to a calculated beam hardening correction factor, measured ...