US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 2 for "System and method for motion compensation for cardiac PET imaging" (California, New York, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,409, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for motion compensation for cardiac PET imaging" was invented by Matthew Gilbert Spangler-Bickell (Clovis, Calif.), Kuan-Hao Su (Brookfield, Wis.), Floribertus Philippus Martin 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 computer-implemented method for motion compensation of medical imaging data includes estimating, via a processor, non-periodic motion of a myocardium of a heart due to respiration and/or other body movements throughout a positron emission t...