US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for computed tomography" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,596, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for computed tomography" was invented by Jiahua Fan (New Berlin, Wis.), Changlyong Kim (Brookfield, Wis.), Ming Yan (Waukesha, Wis.), Scott D. Slavic (Sussex, Wis.), Jiang Hsieh (Brookfield, Wis.) and Nicholas R. Konkle (Sussex, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images. In one embodiment, a computed tomography (CT) detector system comprises a layer of energy integrating detectors (EID) arranged below a layer of photon counting (PC) sensors...