US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for providing a perfusion image data set of a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,536, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for providing a perfusion image data set of a patient" was invented by Marcus Brehm (Forchheim, Germany), Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany) and Thomas Flohr (Uehlfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first image data set and at least one second image data set are captured, and a contrast-enhanced image data set and a non-contrast image data set are determined based on the first and the at least one second image data set. The perfusion image data set is calculated based on a ratio of image values of the contrast-enhanc...