US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Aug. 25 for "Attenuation coefficient image generation method, nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus, and trained model generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,440, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Attenuation coefficient image generation method, nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus, and trained model generation method" was invented by Tetsuya Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yui Shigeki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This attenuation coefficient image generation method includes a step of generating an input image (6), a step of generating an intermediate image (7) including an image relating to tissue areas based on the input image (6), and a step of generating an attenuation coefficient image (9) based the intermediate image (7) and known atten...