US Patent Issued to iTOMOGRAPHY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, CANON on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for node-based motion estimation in cardiac CT imaging" (Texas, Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,888, issued on July 7, was assigned to iTOMOGRAPHY Corp. (Houston), THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION Inc. (Orlando, Fla.) and CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for node-based motion estimation in cardiac CT imaging" was invented by Seongjin Yoon (Houston), Alexander Katsevich (Oviedo, Fla.), Michael Frenkel (Houston), Qiulin Tang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Liang Cai (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Jian Zhou (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Zhou Yu (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for motion estimation in CT systems is provided. The method includes dividing projection data, obtained by scanning a heart ...