US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Aug. 25 for "Deep learning TOF models for cherenkov based PET/CT" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,330, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Deep learning TOF models for cherenkov based PET/CT" was invented by Jean-Paul Bouhnik (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides systems and methods for increasing a quality of positron emission tomography (PET) images generated by a PET system with detectors including bismuth germinate (BGO) crystals. In one example, a method for the PET system comprises extracting a higher-quality 2-D image from a first image volume reconstructed using higher-quality time-of-flight (TOF) data acquired from a subject during a sc...