ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,181, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Providing a 3D image dataset" was invented by Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing a 3D image dataset includes identifying an acquisition plan and an acquisition trajectory. The method further includes determining a collimator configuration of a collimation unit for each acquisition positioning, wherein each collimator configuration specifies a spatial arrangement of at least one filter element of the collimation unit such that: X-ray radiation that is emitted by the X-ray source...