ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,653, issued on May 12, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for reconstructing CT images" was invented by Andre Ritter (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany) and Thomas Allmendinger (Forchheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconstructing CT images, comprises: providing CT recording data; reconstructing overlapping partial images; establishing displacement vectors for registering overlap regions of the partial images; interpolating a displacement vector field for each partial image from associated sets of the displacement vectors of the two side regions; creating an output ...