US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 15 for "Method for rigid motion correction of PET and MR images on PET/MR scanners" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,893, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Method for rigid motion correction of PET and MR images on PET/MR scanners" was invented by Garry E. Gold (Stanford, Calif.), Farshad Moradi (San Diego) and Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for combined PET/MR imaging performs a PET/MR scan using a PET/MR scanner. During the scan a frame is reconstructed and co-registered with a reference frame. The reference frame is dynamically updated throughout the PET/MR scan by incorporating most recently co-registered ima...