ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,278, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"AI-driven PET reconstruction from histoimage" was invented by Stefan Siegel (Knoxville, Tenn.), Inki Hong (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Ziad Burbar (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include acquisition of a computed tomography image of an object, determination of a linear attenuation coefficient map based on the computed tomography image, acquisition of positron emission tomography (PET) data of the object, determination of a histoimage of the object based on the PET data, determination of a scatter histoimage bas...