ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,555, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"System and method for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography" was invented by Hongdi Li (Houston), Yun Dong (Shanghai) and Yang Lyu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a positron emission tomography (PET) system and an image reconstruction method thereof. The PET system may include a plurality of detector units arranged along an axial direction, each detector unit of the plurality of detector units being configured to generate a plurality of single event counts; a plurality of coincidence...