US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Computer-implemented method, processing apparatus, imaging facility and computer program for specifying a location and/or a thickness of a slice of a patient to be imaged" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,235, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method, processing apparatus, imaging facility and computer program for specifying a location and/or a thickness of a slice of a patient to be imaged" was invented by Philipp Roser (Erlangen, Germany) and Marcus Pfister (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predetermining a location and/or a thickness of a slice, to be imaged of a patient during a tomosynthesis imaging to be parameterized by an imaging facility comprising the steps of obtaining three-dimensional image data of a pr...