US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 3 for "Methods and apparatus for medical imaging event detection timing corrections and image reconstruction" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,229, issued on March 3, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Methods and apparatus for medical imaging event detection timing corrections and image reconstruction" was invented by Stefan Siegel (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Ziad Burbar (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for correcting timing information associated with captured nuclear imaging data, and for reconstructing medical images based on the corrected timing information, are disclosed. In some embodiments, an image scanning system scans a subject, detects an event, and generates timing data for the detected event. The ...