US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on March 4 for "Medical image processing method, medical image processing apparatus, and computer readable non-volatile storage medium storing medical image processing program" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,127, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image processing method, medical image processing apparatus, and computer readable non-volatile storage medium storing medical image processing program" was invented by Tzu-Cheng Lee (Mundelein, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Zhou Yu (Glenview, Ill.), Masakazu Matsuura (Nasushiobara, Japan), Takuya Nemoto (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Hiroki Taguchi (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing method includes obtaining a first set of projection data by performing, with a first...