US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 28 for "Reducing artifacts occurring due to vessel overlaps in a four-dimensional angiography dataset" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,481, issued on July 28, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Reducing artifacts occurring due to vessel overlaps in a four-dimensional angiography dataset" was invented by Noah Maul (Erlangen, Germany) and Annette Birkhold (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for reducing artifacts occurring due to vessel overlaps in a four-dimensional angiography dataset acquired with administration of a contrast agent, wherein distribution data relating to a concentration of the contrast agent in the blood circulatory system is generated at the respective time points for a three-dimension...