US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on June 30 for "Systems and methods for correcting positron emission tomography devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,625, issued on June 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for correcting positron emission tomography devices" was invented by Manquan Xue (Shanghai) and Xinyu Lyu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for data masking. The method includes obtaining data associated with coincidence events related to intrinsic background radiations of a plurality of crystals of the PET device. Each of the coincidence events may be detected by two crystals of the plurality of crystals of the PET device. The data associated with the eac...