US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 27 for "Motion correction for digital subtraction angiography" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,177, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Motion correction for digital subtraction angiography" was invented by Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore) and Alejandro Sisniega (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An angiography system includes a table supporting a subject, configured to: receive, from a 2D X-ray imaging system, contrast-enhanced 2D data of a region of the subject's body, a contrast-enhanced 2D data corresponding to a position and orientation of the X-ray imaging system relative to the region; receive, from a three dimensional (3D) X-ray imaging system, 3D data of the region acq...