US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 24 for "Method for generating a contrast-enhanced mammogram recording" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,049, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for generating a contrast-enhanced mammogram recording" was invented by Mathias Hoernig (Moehrendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a plurality of contrast-enhanced mammograms of an examination region is described. In the method a plurality of at least two different angular positions is defined for a contrast-enhanced tomosynthesis projection recording of an examination region. At least two low-energy tomosynthesis projection recordings of the examination region are subsequently generated, starting from the a...