ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,495, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Mu-map alignment using CAD data" was invented by Johann Sukkau (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Noah Birge (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rainer Kurth (Erlangen, Germany) and Vincent Kelber (Bamberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include acquisition of a respective computed tomography (CT) image of each of a plurality of adjacent portions of a patient support, determination of a respective transformation matrix between each of the CT images and a corresponding portion of a predetermined linear attenuation coefficient map of the pat...