PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16511218
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["378", "005000"]

Abstract:
The present approaches relates to the use of silicon-based energy-discriminating, photon-counting detectors, such as for use in X-ray based imaging including computed tomography. The described approaches address the resolution and classification of X-ray photons affected by Compton scatter, which may be detected as having energy levels below their proper level due to collision or deflection events.

Claim (Index 1):
An X-ray based imaging system, comprising:\n an X-ray source configured to emit X-rays at one or more energy spectra; an X-ray detector comprising a silicon-based direct-conversion material, wherein the X-ray detector is configured to generate signals in response to the transmitted X-rays during operation and wherein the signals correspond to photon counts observed at different energy levels for each exposure interval; and a processing component configured to receive the signals from the X-ray detector and to bin the photon count data for at least one respective energy spectrum based on observed energy levels into one of: a primary high-energy bin above a first threshold; a low-energy bin between a second threshold and the first threshold; and a secondary high-energy bin above a discard threshold and below the second threshold; wherein the processing component is further configured to generate one or more images using high-energy photon counts derived for the primary high-energy bin and secondary high-energy bin and using the low-energy photon counts in the low-energy bin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.22
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15400798', '12707076', '12902291', '15450653', '11837328']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7004664158344592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.543476242881847
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6847673985391981
- Mean Citation Score: 343.115962
- Max Citation Score: 465.87555
- Similarity Product: 455.4595876284063

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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