US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 27 for "CT imaging depending on an intrinsic respiratory surrogate of a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,090, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"CT imaging depending on an intrinsic respiratory surrogate of a patient" was invented by Christian Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Matthias Baer-Beck (Spardorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a CT imaging process based on an individual respiration behaviour of a patient, comprises: recording a respiratory movement of the patient by monitoring an intrinsic respiratory surrogate. In the context of recording the intrinsic respiratory surrogate, CT raw data are acquired from an examination volume of the patient, and 3D-C...