ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,520, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for CT detector calibration using a wire phantom" was invented by Bjorn Cederstrom (Stockholm), Changlyong Kim (Waukesha, Wis.), Jiayin Ling (Waukesha, Wis.), Ronald G. Kulas (Waukesha, Wis.), Jingyi Liang (Waukesha, Wis.) and Mark Adamak (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for calibrating computed tomography (CT) system. In one example, a method for a computed tomography (CT) system comprises, during a calibration of the CT system, measuring a position of a detector element of a dete...