ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,659, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.).
"Synthetic CT using MRI" was invented by Siyong Kim (Glen Allen, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches for generating synthetic computer tomography (CT) images using magnetic resonance imaging A patient body outline (PBO) of a patient is obtained. Then, a magnetic resonance image set in a limited field of view (MRI-in-LFOV) of the patient is converted into a synthetic computed tomography (CT) image set in limited field of view (syn-CT-in-LFOV) of the patient. Next, the syn-CT-in-LFOV is expanded to a synthetic CT im...