US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for creating a quantitative positron emission tomography image" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,101, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for creating a quantitative positron emission tomography image" was invented by Hans Wehrl (Erlangen, Germany), Matthias Fenchel (Erlangen, Germany), Silvia Bettina Arroyo Camejo (Fuerth, Germany), Bjoern Jakoby (Nuremberg, Germany) and Julian Wohlers (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) image of a subject or object comprises recording correction information data with an imaging device; transmitting the correction information data to a first evalu...