ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,523, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE NORTH AMERICA INC. (Houston).

"Methods and systems for image processing" was invented by Tiantian Li (Houston) and Hongdi Li (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing are provided. The methods may include obtaining first positron emission tomography (PET) data and second PET data of a subject. The methods may include determining, based on the first PET data, first reference data relating to first target events occurred in the first PET scan. The first target events at least include first backscatter events. The methods may include d...