US Patent Issued to Sino Canada Health Institute on Feb. 24 for "Method for monitoring PET readout positions using MRI fiducials" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,052, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sino Canada Health Institute Inc. (Hefei, China).

"Method for monitoring PET readout positions using MRI fiducials" was invented by Vanessa Palmer (Winnipeg, Canada), John Saunders (Winnipeg, Canada), Ryan Sparkes (Winnipeg, Canada), James Schellenberg (Winnipeg, Canada) and Graham Schellenberg (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method to measure the position of the PET System using the MRI, through the use of MRI coils and fiducials. This approach offers a route to automated calibration which is more flexible than other approaches. This method of position me...