US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Jan. 20 for "Parametric imaging without pre-scan blood input function" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,828, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Parametric imaging without pre-scan blood input function" was invented by Vladimir Panin (Knoxville, Tenn.) and David Pigg (Maryville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include acquisition of positron emission tomography (PET) data of a volume comprising blood and tissue, determination, from the acquired PET data, of a blood input function (BIF) from a time at which non-metabolized radionuclide tracer within the volume has reached a steady state between the blood and the tissue, and determination of parametric images bas...