US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on June 30 for "Systems and methods for time of flight positron emission tomography" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,624, issued on June 30, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for time of flight positron emission tomography" was invented by Sergei Dolinsky (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) system is herein provided. In one example, an imaging system comprises one or more detector blocks, each detector block including an array of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) devices coupled to an array of scintillation crystals with a one-to-one coupling arrangement, wherein each SiPM device of the array of SiPM device...