US Patent Issued to Aarhus Universitet on May 20 for "Device and method for pet image analysis and reconstruction" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,559, issued on May 20, was assigned to Aarhus Universitet (Aarhus C, Denmark).

"Device and method for pet image analysis and reconstruction" was invented by Thomas Mejer Hansen (Knebel, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method for image reconstruction for medical imaging is provided. The method comprises obtaining a lookup table of pre-computed sets of data, obtaining a PET image, dividing the PET image into subset-images of one, or more, pixels. For each subset-image of pixels in the PET image, an extended rejection sampler is used to select model-images from the lookup table, determining and outputting a represe...