ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,001, issued on July 1, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
"System and method for PET-CT image artifact evaluation and correction" was invented by Raz Carmi (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining emission-tomography functional image data and a corresponding reconstructed anatomical image volume including at least one organ having natural motion; pre-determining a dedicated model for spatial mismatch correction of the at least one organ; performing initial image reconstruction of the emission-tomography functional image data to generate a reconstructed emission-tomography fu...