ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,920, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Planning of wide-coverage axial CT scans" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device (10) and related method and computer-program product for planning an acquisition by a CT scanner (20). The device receives a pre-scan image of the object from the scanner via an input (12). A processor (16), in use of the device, obtains a parameter selection based on the pre-scan image, in which this parameter selection comprises at least axial upper and lower scan range limits o...