US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Sept. 9 for "Method and system to compensate for consecutive missing views in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,321, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Method and system to compensate for consecutive missing views in computed tomography (CT) reconstruction" was invented by Qiulin Tang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Thomas Labno (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Zhou Yu (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer readable medium to compensate for consecutive missing views in Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction. By utilizing at least one complementary ray from a previous or subsequent view, the missing view(s) c...