US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 31 for "Material-specific attenuation maps for combined imaging systems" (Tennessee, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,016, issued on March 31, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Material-specific attenuation maps for combined imaging systems" was invented by Pierce Ellingson (Cincinnati) and Paul Schleyer (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating an attenuation map are disclosed. Computed tomography (CT) scan data for a CT scan including an imaging component is obtained. The CT scan data comprises a plurality of voxels each having a scanned CT value. A material in each voxel of the plurality of voxels is identified by comparing the scanned CT value for the voxel with predeter...