US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 9 for "Detector response calibaration data weight optimization method for a photon counting x-ray imaging system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,888, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Detector response calibaration data weight optimization method for a photon counting x-ray imaging system" was invented by Xiaohui Zhan (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ruoqiao Zhang (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Ilmar Hein (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray scanner system is provided. The system includes a photon-counting detector, a memory, and processing circuitry. The detector has a plurality of detector pixels in a channel direction. The memory stores a detector response forward model of the photon-counting detector. The detector res...