US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Feb. 10 for "Ultra-fast-pitch acquisition and reconstruction in helical computed tomography" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,223, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Ultra-fast-pitch acquisition and reconstruction in helical computed tomography" was invented by Lifeng Yu (Byron, Minn.), Hao Gong (Rochester, Minn.), Liqiang Ren (Rochester, Minn.) and Cynthia H. McCollough (Byron, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images are reconstructed from data acquired using an ultra-fast-pitch acquisition with a CT system. As an example, an ultra-fast-pitch acquisition mode in single-source helical CT (less than=1.5) can be used to acquire data. A trained machine learning algorithm, such as a neu...