US Patent Issued to OULUN YLIOPISTO on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus, method and computer program for processing computed tomography (CT) scan data" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,147, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to OULUN YLIOPISTO (Oulu, Finland).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for processing computed tomography (CT) scan data" was invented by Miika Nieminen (Oulu, Finland), Mikael Brix (Oulu, Finland), Juuso Ketola (Oulu, Finland) and Satu Inkinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, method and computer program code for processing computed tomography (CT) scan data is disclosed. The method includes: receiving (202) a real sinogram from a CT scanning of a region of interest of a subject; receiving (204) shape data representing anatomic contours of a body part containing the re...