US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Feb. 17 for "Myocardial blood flow estimation with automated motion correction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,236, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Myocardial blood flow estimation with automated motion correction" was invented by Chih-Chun Wei (Los Angeles), Piotr Slomka (Los Angeles) and Serge D Van Kriekinge (Encino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically performing motion correction in dynamic positron emission tomography scans, such as dynamic positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging studies. An automated algorithm can be used. The algorithm can use simplex iterative optimization of a count-based cost-function customized to ...