US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 27 for "Low radiation dose computed tomography perfusion (CTP) with improved quantitative analysis" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,046, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Low radiation dose computed tomography perfusion (CTP) with improved quantitative analysis" was invented by Shiyu Xu (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Hao Dang (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) and Chuanyong Bai (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer tomography scanner (102) includes a radiation source (112) configured to emit x-ray radiation, a detector array (116) configured to detect x-ray radiation and generate a signal indicative thereof, and a reconstructor (118) configured to reconstruct the signal and generate sequential spares time line...