ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,962, issued on May 26, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).
"Method and apparatus for reconstructing image projections" was invented by Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.) and Shuanghe Shi (Southborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system having a detector able to move relative to the subject. A contrast agent can be injected into the subject and image data can be acquired with the contrast agent in various phases of the subject. A volumetric model of multiple phases can be reconstructed...