US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 20 for "X-ray CT scanner, data acquisition system, and data acquisition method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,541, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray CT scanner, data acquisition system, and data acquisition method" was invented by Hiroaki Miyazaki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray CT scanner includes a photon counting type detector and processing circuitry. The detector includes a plurality of detection elements. The processing circuitry determines whether there is a defective element out of the plurality of detection elements and interpolates an output value of a defective element on the basis of output values of a plurality of normal elements which are included in ...