ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,003, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc. (York, Pa.).
"Method of metal artefact reduction in x-ray dental volume tomography" was invented by Christina Sarti (Frankfurt, Germany), Kai Stannigel (Weinheim, Germany) and Michael Elvers (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of metal artefact reduction in x-ray dental volume tomography, the method comprising: a step (S1) of obtaining two-dimensional x-ray images (1) or a sinogram (2) of at least part (v) of a patient jaw (3a), acquired through relatively rotating an x-ray source (4) and a detector (5) around the pat...