A61B 6/484
Involving phase contrast x-ray imaging
Official title: {involving phase contrast X-ray imaging}
A61B6/484 (Involving phase contrast x-ray imaging) appears on 497 US grants and 636 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 497
- Published applications
- 636
- Assignees
- 146
- Inventors
- 675
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Mammography apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,733,892 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for enhanced phase-contrast x-ray imaging14 Jul 2026US 12,678,111 B2Battelle Memorial Institute
- Phase contrast x-ray imaging system and image processing method9 Jun 2026US 12,648,747 B2Shimadzu Corporation
- X-ray phase imaging apparatus and display method of preview image in X-ray phase imaging apparatus9 Dec 2025US 12,490,948 B2Shimadzu Corporation
- Phase-contrast X-ray imaging system for obtaining a dark-field image and a method therefor18 Nov 2025US 12,471,862 B2Imec Vzw
- Radiation image processing device, radiation image processing method, and radiation image processing program26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083421 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Target structure tracking based on phase-contrast and/or dark-field image data for radiation therapy26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054094 A1Siemens Healthineers International AG
- Cross grid phase contrast x-ray computed tomography1 Jan 2026US 2026/0000374 A1Battelle Memorial Institute
- Medical image processing apparatus and x-ray diagnostic apparatus25 Sep 2025US 2025/0295369 A1Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Pcct apparatus and control method thereof11 Sep 2025US 2025/0281144 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Scanning system for differential phase contrast imaging302US 9,750,465 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V. · 2017
- Ultrahigh resolution interferometric x-ray imaging226US 5,812,629 A1998
- Method and apparatus for medical intervention procedure planning195US 7,346,381 B2GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC · 2008
- Dynamic multi-spectral X-ray projection imaging151US 6,950,492 B22005
- Methods for acquiring multi spectral data of an object139US 7,116,749 B22006