ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,156, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Medical image diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Yutaka Hoshiyama (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Isao Tatebayashi (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes: a scanner configured to perform a pre-scan of an object and a diagnostic scan of the object after the pre-scan; and processing circuitry. This processing circuitry is configured to: generate a positioning image from data acquired by the pre-scan and a diagnostic image from data acquired by the diagnostic scan; generate a nor...