US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 20 for "PCCT energy calibration from X-ray tube spectra using a neural network" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,362, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"PCCT energy calibration from X-ray tube spectra using a neural network" was invented by Kent C. Burr (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Nikolay Markov (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Yi Qiang (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for calibrating a detector, including acquiring an energy spectrum obtained from a scan using an X-ray tube as a source of radiation, estimating calibration parameters, such as a gain and an offset, for each of several channels of the detector by applying the acquired first energy spectrum to inputs of a trained neura...