US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for super time-of-flight resolution" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,950, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for super time-of-flight resolution" was invented by Jorge Cabello (Lenoir City, Tenn.) and Maurizio Conti (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of generating improved resolution histo-images are disclosed. A system includes a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging modality configured to execute a first scan to acquire a first PET dataset and a processor configured to back-project the first PET dataset to generate a first histo-image having a first resolution, input the first histo-image...