Patents

Patents (14 in total, 7 were issued)

1. Xuanqin Mou, Shaojie Tang and Hengyong Yu; Beam hardening correction method for  CT projection based on HL data consistency condition; China Patent Application No: 200610041868.1, Patent Number: CN1818973A; Issue date: August 16, 2006.

2. Ge Wang, Yangbo Ye and Hengyong Yu; Interior tomography and instant tomography by reconstruction from truncated limited-angle projection data; Patent disclosure filed with the Virginia Tech. on Dec. 6, 2007; US Patent Application No: 12/362,979, US Publication No: US7697658 B2, Issue Date: April 13, 2010.

3. Ge Wang, Jun Zhao, Yang Lu, Hengyong Yu, and Alexander Katsevich; Cardiac computed tomography methods and systems using fast exact/quasi-exact filtered back projection algorithms; Patent disclosure filed with Virginia Tech., April 18, 2009; US Patent Application No: 12/914,790, Publication No.: US8483351 B2, Issue Date: April 12, 2013.

4. Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu; Exact local Computed tomography based on compressive sampling; Patent disclosure filed with the Virginia Tech., Dec. 20, 2008; U.S. Patent Application No: 13/264,843, Publication No: US 20120063659 A1, Issue Date: April 10, 2014.

5. Hengyong Yu, Ge Wang, Ming Jiang and Jiansheng Yang; Methods for Improved Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Using Exact and Stable Region of Interest Reconstructions; Patent disclosure filed with the Virginia Tech., June 9, 2008, U.S. Patent Application No: 61/257,443. Issue date: July 29, 2014. 

6. Peng He, Biao Wei, Hengyong Yu, Ge Wang, and Peng Feng; A projection data processing and image reconstruction method for x-ray spectral CT; China Patent Application No: 201310108088.4, Patent Number: CN103150744A, Issue date: June 12, 2013.

7. Ge Wang, Fenglin Liu, Wenxiang Cong, and Hengyong Yu; Computed tomography based on linear scanning; Patent Application No: 14/573,967; Patent Number 9730657, Issued date: August 15, 2017. 

8. Boce Zhang, Hengyong Yu, Yaguang Luo and Xiaobo Liu; Method and System for Paper Chromogenic Array-Based Food Testing, Patent provisional filed in Nov. 2018. Application submitted in Nov. 2019. Published in May, 2020. 

9. Ge Wang, Weiwen Wu, Wenxiang Cong, Hengyong Yu; Hybrid image reconstruction system; , Patent provisional filed on August 4, 2021.

10. Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu, Otto Zhou, Guohua Cao, Erik Ritman, Michael Vannier; Systems and methods for interior tomosynthesis; Patent disclosure filed with Virginia Tech., August 20, 2009; U.S. Patent Application No: 61/256,099 (Provisional).

11. Ge Wang, Hengyong Yu, Jie Zhang, Curtis Corum and Michael Garwood;Theoretically Exact and Stable Interior ROI Reconstruction for Radial MRI; Patent disclosure filed with the Virginia Tech., July 29, 2008, U.S. Patent Application No: 61/260,577 (Provisional).

12. Ge Wang and Hengyong Yu; Systems and Methods for Exact or Approximate Cardiac CT; Patent disclosure filed with the Virginia Tech., July 17, 2007; USA Patent Application No: 12/684,267.

13. Hengyong Yu and Yanbo Zhang, Deep learning method for metal artifact reduction, patent disclosure filed to UML in December, 2017. 

14. Hengyong Yu, Peng He, Weiwen Wu, and Yonghui Li; Unsupervised deep learning approach for photon-counting computed tomography and medical image denoising; patent disclosure filed to UML in November, 2022, No. 2023-009