US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 17 for "Attenuation map generated by LSO background" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,488, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Attenuation map generated by LSO background" was invented by Deepak Bharkhada (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vladimir Panin (Knoxville, Tenn.), Mohammadreza Teimoorisichani (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Maurizio Conti (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and computer-implemented methods for background radiation based attenuation correction are disclosed. Nuclear scan data including scan data associated with a first imaging modality and background radiation data are received. An initial background radiation attenuation map is genera...