US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 24 for "Systems and methods for improved computed tomography using photon-counting detectors" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,849, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for improved computed tomography using photon-counting detectors" was invented by Ke Li (Madison, Wis.) and Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a hybrid detector for a computed tomography (CT) system are provided that include a semiconductor detector arranged to generate photon-counting CT data upon receiving x-rays and a scintillator detector arranged proximate to the semiconductor detector to receive scattered x-rays and generate energy-integrating CT data upon receivin...