US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Feb. 17 for "System and method for single-scan rest-stress cardiac PET" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,173, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System and method for single-scan rest-stress cardiac PET" was invented by Nathaniel Alpert (Plymouth, Mass.) and Georges El Fakhri (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system and method for performing a single-scan rest-stress cardiac measurement. In one aspect, the system includes a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system, a source of a first PET radiotracer for administration to a subject, a source of a second PET radiotracer for administration to a subject, and a processor. The processor has non-tra...