US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 8 for "System and method for LiDAR guided auto gating in a CT imaging system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,084, issued on July 8, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for LiDAR guided auto gating in a CT imaging system" was invented by Arka Datta (Pewaukee, Wis.) and Brian E. Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system and method for using the imaging system are described. In one example, a method of creating representative position information of a patient during a medical imaging scan is provided. The method includes, prior to performing a medical imaging scan, performing initial LiDAR data acquisition to obtain baseline LiDAR data, performing segmentation of the bas...