US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Feb. 3 for "Method and system for focal spot tracking and reducing scatter cross talk in medical imaging" (Wisconsin, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,092, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Method and system for focal spot tracking and reducing scatter cross talk in medical imaging" was invented by Shefali Saxena (Pewaukee, Wis.), Mark Adamak (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Biju Jacob (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for a sensor design in a computed tomography (CT) detector of a medical imaging system. In one embodiment, a detector array may include a post-patient collimator assembly arranged between a detector array and an x-ray source, the collimator assembly having a plurality of collim...