US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for controlling pileup losses in computed tomography" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,529, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for controlling pileup losses in computed tomography" was invented by Ke Li (Middleton, Wis.) and Kevin Treb (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for producing a computed tomography (CT) medical image includes receiving x-rays passing through an object with a photon-counting detector system, which includes a plurality of detector pixels configured to generate a photon-counting signal in response to receiving each photon of the x-rays having passed through the object. The method also includes ...