US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Nov. 11 for "Robotic arm-based clinical micro-CT system and method" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,298, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Robotic arm-based clinical micro-CT system and method" was invented by Ge Wang (Loudonville, N.Y.), Mengzhou Li (Troy, N.Y.), Zheng Fang (Troy, N.Y.) and Wenxiang Cong (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, there is provided a micro-CT (computed tomography) apparatus. The micro-CT apparatus includes an x-ray source coupled to a source robotic arm, an x-ray detector coupled to a detector robotic arm, and a computing device. The computing device includes a data acquisition module and a reconstruction module. The data acquisi...