US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 3 for "Pet reconstruction for adjustable pet system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,232, issued on June 3, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Pet reconstruction for adjustable pet system" was invented by Wenyuan Qi (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Kent C. Burr (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Yi Qiang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Evren Asma (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Jeffrey Kolthammer (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PET scanner includes gamma-ray detector rings that form a bore through which an imaging subject is translated, a length of the bore defining an axial length of the PET scanner, the gamma-ray detector rings being movable along the axial length, the gamma-ray detector rings including gamm...