US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 18 for "Motion artifact reduction in computed tomography" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,382, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland).

"Motion artifact reduction in computed tomography" was invented by Adam Michal Strzelecki (Daettwil, Switzerland), Dieter Marc Seghers (Zurich, Switzerland), Igor Peterlik (Kuenten, Switzerland), Mathieu Plamondon (Glattbrugg, Switzerland), Pascal Paysan (Basel, Switzerland), Peter N Munro (Daettwil, Switzerland) and Philippe Messmer (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconstructed volume of a region of patient anatomy is processed to reduce motion artifacts in the reconstructed volume. Autosegmentation of high-contrast str...