ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,467, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Removing artefacts in radiotherapy imaging" was invented by Abdul Sayeed (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy device can include a radiation source configured to deliver kilovolt (KV) or megavolt (MV) radiation and a detector configured to detect the delivered radiation and generate a plurality of images of a subject located between the radiation source and the detector. The radiotherapy device can further include a controller configured to detect an erroneous pixel in an image of the plurality of images and generate an ave...