US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 4 for "Method for improving ct-based material decomposition" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,309, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for improving ct-based material decomposition" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany), Roland Proksa (Neu Wulmstorf, Germany) and Kevin Martin Brown (Chardon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a material decomposition procedure applied to dual-energy CT projection data. Material decomposition is often done using pre-computed lookup tables (LUTs) for mapping input projection data, acquired with particular X-ray source parameters, to material data values. However, the X-ray source parameters can vary ove...