US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on March 24 for "System, method and/or computer readable medium for mitigation of effects from photon septal penetration in SPECT imaging" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,276, issued on March 24, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System, method and/or computer readable medium for mitigation of effects from photon septal penetration in SPECT imaging" was invented by Michael Wilk (Haifa, Israel), Yariv Grobshtein (Haifa, Israel) and Ayeleth Devir-Wolfman (Nes Ammim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging system includes a detector configured to receive photons emitted by a radiopharmaceutical in an examination region and convert the received photons to measured projection data and a collimator with septa spatially ...