US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 18 for "Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program to reduce influence of artifacts in contrast imaging" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,871, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program to reduce influence of artifacts in contrast imaging" was invented by Wataru Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of an image processing device acquires a low-energy image captured by irradiating an object, into which a contrast medium has been injected, with radiation having first energy emitted from a radiation source and detecting the radiation with a radiation detector, a high-energy image captured by irradiating the object with radiation having second energy...