ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,334, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Attenuation correction factor generation" was invented by Joshua Schaefferkoetter (Knoxville, Tenn.), Paul Schleyer (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Yifan Zheng (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for medical image data processing. An attenuation correction factor (ACF) map is generated by applying the raw emission data directly to one or more artificial neural networks. A medical image may then be reconstructed from the ACF map."
The patent was filed on May 17, 2024, under Application No. 18/667,279.
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