US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Image reconstruction method and image reconstruction processing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,709, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image reconstruction method and image reconstruction processing system" was invented by Manabu Teshigawara (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image reconstruction method of an embodiment is to perform PET image reconstruction based on an objective function that solves a combinatorial optimization problem. The image reconstruction method of the embodiment includes a step of obtaining detection data and a step of performing PET image reconstruction by solving a combinatorial optimization problem based on the objective function into which the detection data is i...