US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Oct. 20 for "Small footprint multi-use SPECT system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,848, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Small footprint multi-use SPECT system" was invented by Alexander Hans Vija (Evanston, Ill.), Miesher Rodrigues (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Dennis Steibel (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include generation of a first tomographic image of a subject based on first gamma rays detected by the detector while the detector is disposed at a first position with respect to the subject, generation of a second tomographic image of the subject based on second gamma rays detected by the detector while the detector is disp...