US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 3 for "Method for generating a virtual mask image and angiography apparatus" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,905, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for generating a virtual mask image and angiography apparatus" was invented by Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides solutions for reducing exposure to radiation in digital subtraction angiography. For this, a method for generating a virtual mask image is proposed. A plurality of images of an object is captured by an angiography apparatus. For at least some of all pixel positions, an extreme pixel value of the pixels of the plurality of images in the respective pixel position is respectively asc...