US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus for medical imaging event detection and image reconstruction" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,656, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting multiple events during nuclear imaging scans, and for reconstructing images based on the detected events, are disclosed. In some embodiments, an image scanning system scans a subject, and generates a signal characterizing a detection event. The system applies a peak detection process to the signal and, based on the ap...