ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,022, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"PCCT apparatus and control method of the same" was invented by Ryo Tanaka (Kashiwa, Japan) and Masafumi Onouchi (Kashiwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a PCCT apparatus and a control method of the same capable of detecting an abnormality occurring in a photon counting type detector.There is provided a PCCT apparatus including a photon counting type detector that counts X-ray photons, the PCCT apparatus including: a spectrum generation unit that generates a spectrum which is a distribution of photon counts for each energy bin; a calculation unit that ...