US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for determining the BPE in a contrast medium-enhanced X-ray examination of a breast" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,747, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for determining the BPE in a contrast medium-enhanced X-ray examination of a breast" was invented by Andreas Fieselmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Mathias Hoernig (Moehrendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for determining a Background Parenchymal Enhancement (BPE) in a contrast medium-enhanced X-ray examination of a breast comprising providing images of the X-ray examination, the images having been taken after administration of the contrast medium,...