A61B 6/4241
Using energy resolving detectors
Official title: {using energy resolving detectors, e.g. photon counting}
A61B6/4241 (Using energy resolving detectors) appears on 985 US grants and 1,166 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 985
- Published applications
- 1,166
- Assignees
- 252
- Inventors
- 1,620
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 56 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- X-ray CT apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,751,677 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Providing adjusted recording parameters6 Oct 2026US 12,751,684 B2Siemens Healthineers AG
- PCCT apparatus and control method of the same29 Sep 2026US 12,745,973 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Progressive exploitation of multi-energy and photon counting modalities29 Sep 2026US 12,749,156 B2Elucid Bioimaging Inc.
- X-ray imaging apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,727,840 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method for actuating an x-ray imaging device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294366 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Radiation diagnostic apparatus, radiation detector and output determination method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283567 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Medical Image Processing Method and System, Device and Medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289728 A1Siemens Healthineers AG
- Computed tomography (ct) k-edge enhanced image reconstruction of a combination of a plurality of weighted energy bins24 Sep 2026US 2026/0289752 A1GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- High-bandwidth data streaming for distributed computing17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281169 A1Idea Sistemas Eletronicôs LTDA S.A.
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