US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Dec. 2 for "System and method for on-the-fly noise equivalent count estimation for positron emission tomography imaging" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,435, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for on-the-fly noise equivalent count estimation for positron emission tomography imaging" was invented by Scott David Wollenweber (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating noise equivalent counts includes one or more times during a scan of an object with a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, wherein a plurality of coincidence events are detected by a detector array of the PET scanner, performing the following actions. The actions include obtaining a total of the plurality of coincidence events, ...