US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on April 7 for "Methods and apparatus for synthetic computed tomography image generation" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,189, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus for synthetic computed tomography image generation" was invented by Vijay Shah (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Lauren Partin (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating attenuation maps for reconstructing medical images are disclosed. In some examples, measurement data, such as positron emission tomography (PET) data or single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) data, is received for a subject. A machine learning process is applied to the measurement data to generate initial syntheti...