US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 26 for "Augmenting ultrasound simulations using CT data" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,988, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Augmenting ultrasound simulations using CT data" was invented by Abdoul Aziz Amadou (London) and Paul Klein (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods augmenting ultrasound simulations using photon counting computed tomography (CT) data in order to create simulated ultrasound data with fine tissue detail. A virtual volume is generated from acoustic properties derived from the photon counting CT data. Simulated ultrasound data is generated by placing a simulated transducer at various positions in the virtual volume."

The pate...