US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on May 13 for "Magnetic resonance-positron emission tomography imaging apparatus" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,370, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Magnetic resonance-positron emission tomography imaging apparatus" was invented by Fuyi Fang (Shanghai), Lingzhi Hu (Houston), Qiang He (Shanghai), Wei Luo (Shanghai) and Feng Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MR-PET apparatus is provided. The MR-PET apparatus may include a supporting component, a PET detection device, an RF coil, and a signal shielding component. The PET detection device may be supported on the supporting component. The PET detection device may be configured to receive a plurality of photons. The RF coil may ...