US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Jan. 27 for "Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,092, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method" was invented by Shinsuke Tsukagoshi (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Hiroki Taguchi (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of pieces of energy bin data that are generated based on execution of photon counting CT scan. The processing circuitry reconstructs a plurality of energy band images based on the plurality of pieces of energy bin da...