US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 28 for "Method and systems for automatic gantry tilt estimation for head CT scans from camera images" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,559, issued on July 28, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and systems for automatic gantry tilt estimation for head CT scans from camera images" was invented by Brian Teixeira (Princeton, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Andreas Prokein (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating optimal gantry orientation and/or scanning parameters using image(s) from one or several cameras for a CT scan of a patient. Images are acquired of a patient. An optimal gantry tilt is estimated that keeps the patient's eye lenses outside a...