US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Oct. 14 for "System and method for utilizing variable radial sinogram dimension for positron emission tomography imaging" (New York, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,178, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for utilizing variable radial sinogram dimension for positron emission tomography imaging" was invented by Floribertus Philippus Martinus Heukensfeldt Jansen (Ballston Lake, N.Y.) and Timothy Wayne Deller (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for limiting coincidence data includes detecting a plurality of coincidence events during a scan of a subject with a detector array of a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, wherein the PET scanner includes a plurality of detector rings disposed along ...