US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 30 for "X-ray CT apparatus, image processing apparatus, and motion-corrected image reconstruction method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,845, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray CT apparatus, image processing apparatus, and motion-corrected image reconstruction method" was invented by Yusuke Tetsumura (Chiba, Japan), Ryota Kohara (Chiba, Japan), Yuta Ogura (Chiba, Japan) and Yoshiki Mori (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When motion information of a subject during scanning is acquired from an image pair and motion-corrected image reconstruction is performed to generate a CT image, erroneous recognition and excessive smoothing of a motion component are prevented, and the accuracy of motion correction is improved. A filtering u...