ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,947, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
"Variable tissue imaging system and method for C-arm fluoroscopy imaging systems" was invented by James Liu (Salt Lake City), Jon Lea (Salt Lake City), Naveen S. Chandra (Salt Lake City) and Kai Niu (Sandy, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing a dual energy subtraction imaging process on a fixed or mobile fluoroscopy imaging system for pulmonary imaging applications is provided. The dual energy subtraction image processing system includes a processor configured to operate a radiation source of a fluoroscopy imaging s...