US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Aug. 19 for "List mode image reconstruction method and nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,118, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"List mode image reconstruction method and nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tetsuya Kobayashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshihiro Yamada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A list mode image reconstruction method includes a step of dividing list mode data into a plurality of subsets and a step of acquiring a subset balance coefficient based on the number of events in the plurality of subsets."

The patent was filed on March 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/910,468.

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