US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Medical image processing device, computer program, and nuclear medicine device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,548, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chiba, Japan).

"Medical image processing device, computer program, and nuclear medicine device" was invented by Hideaki Tashima (Chiba, Japan) and Taiga Yamaya (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image is reconstituted by iterative approximation, a PET event updated image is produced by updating a current image using a PET event, a Compton event updated image is produced by updating the current image using a Compton event, the PET event updated image and the Compton event updated image that have been independently produced are we...