US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 14 for "Imaging having scatter correction by interpolation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,351, issued on April 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Imaging having scatter correction by interpolation" was invented by Philipp Roser (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce a computing effort for correcting initial images from an imaging apparatus, a scatter model is used to simulate scattered-radiation images, and corresponding initial images are selected from the original initial images. These are used to train a neural network. The neural network may be used to calculate scattered-radiation single images that may be used to correct each individual initial image int...