ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,360, issued on March 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Processing event data in pet imaging" was invented by Thomas Frach (Aachen, Germany) and Oliver Muelhens (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positron emission tomography imaging system (100) includes a plurality of detector elements (1301.i) and a plurality of compute elements (1401.j). Each compute element (1401.j) comprises one or more of the detector elements (1301.i), and the compute elements (1401.j) are arranged around the bore (110) of the PET imaging system. Each compute element (1401.j) includes a first communication pat...