US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Dec. 16 for "System and method for sensitivity-based patient positioning for emission tomography imaging" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,019, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for sensitivity-based patient positioning for emission tomography imaging" was invented by Galit Ankri-Eliahoo (Zichron-Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning of a subject for imaging includes generating an anatomical reference image of the subject based on scan data acquired during a scout scan and causing display, on a graphical user interface, of the anatomical reference image with a sensitivity ruler and a scan range. The sensitivity ruler indicates a detection sensitivity along an axial field o...