US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for generating a result image based on a tomosynthesis image dataset of a breast" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,363, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for generating a result image based on a tomosynthesis image dataset of a breast" was invented by Ludwig Ritschl (Buttenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for generating a resultant image comprises: defining curved slices between a compression plate and a detector, each curved slice having a shape that follows a curvature of the compression plate and/or detector or that represents a transition between the curvatures; reconstructing slice images that lie on the curved slices; generating the resultant image a...