US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE on March 18 for "Systems and methods for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,537, issued on March 18, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image reconstruction in positron emission tomography" was invented by Yang Zhang (Shanghai), Shu Liao (Shanghai), Liuchun He (Shanghai) and Zilin Deng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for PET image reconstruction is provided. The system may obtain PET data of a subject. The PET data may be associated with a plurality of coincidence events, which includes scattering events. The system may also generate a preliminary scatter sinogram relating to the scattering events based on the PET data. The sy...