US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Oct. 27 for "Directional estimation for radioactive source localization in single photon emission computed tomography" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,109, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Directional estimation for radioactive source localization in single photon emission computed tomography" was invented by Alexander Hans Vija (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For radioactive source localization, the SPECT system uses a spectroscopic, low spatial resolution detector to localize the Point-of-(first) Interaction (POI) within the detector sensor material in 3D ("3D detector" or "3D spectroscopic detector"), which in turn can be used to estimate the general direction of the source of emissions. By detecting the depth ...