US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Sept. 29 for "Imaging system collimator for high energy and low energy isotopes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,590, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Imaging system collimator for high energy and low energy isotopes" was invented by Jean-Paul Bouhnik (Haifa, Israel), Yariv Grobshtein (Haifa, Israel), Netanella Didi (Haifa, Israel) and Yaron Hefetz (Tirat Carmel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SPECT imaging system includes a detector unit configured to receive photons emitted by a radiopharmaceutical and convert the photons to projection data. The radiopharmaceutical emits radiation in a higher energy radiation range of interest and a lower energy radiation range of interest, and the d...