US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 22 for "System and method for controlling zero-count errors in computed tomography" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,833, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for controlling zero-count errors in computed tomography" was invented by Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wis.) and Ke Li (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating computed tomography (CT) images that includes acquiring or accessing CT data of a subject, identifying zero counts in the CT data, and replacing the zero counts in the CT data with at least one non-zero number to create zero-count free CT data. The method also includes estimating a probability function of the zero-count free CT d...