US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Sept. 22 for "Reconstruction of prompt gamma coincidence data in pet scans" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,834, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Reconstruction of prompt gamma coincidence data in pet scans" was invented by Deepak Bharkhada (Knoxville, Tenn.), Vladimir Panin (Knoxville, Tenn.) and William Steinberger (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying prompt gamma rays by triple-photon detection is disclosed. The method involves using two annihilation photons and a prompt gamma photon to determine the direction of the corresponding prompt gamma ray."

The patent was filed on April 2, 2024, under Application No. 18/624,710.

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