US Patent Issued to Positrigo on July 28 for "Method to position a subject to be scanned in a PET-scanning device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,825, issued on July 28, was assigned to Positrigo AG (Zurich).

"Method to position a subject to be scanned in a PET-scanning device" was invented by Max Ludwig Ahnen (Zurich, Switzerland), Jannis Nikolaus Rudolf Fischer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Ekaterina Mikhaylova (Riniken, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to position a subject to be scanned in a positron emission tomography (PET)-scanning device (1) is presented. According to this method, the subject to be scanned (P) is prepositioned in the PET-scanning device (1) and a set of PET-raw data is acquired of the subject to be scanned (P) for a series of slices by m...