US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 27 for "Compensation of polarization effects in photon counting detectors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,794, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Compensation of polarization effects in photon counting detectors" was invented by Ewald Roessl (Ellarau, Germany) and Roger Steadman Booker (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system (100) and a method for correcting a number of counts (115) in an energy bin of X-ray photons detected by a photon counting detector (111) for a spectral computed tomography system (300). An illumination history (125) of the photon counting detector is taken into account to determine a gain and/or an offset of the phot...