US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 13 for "Multimodal determination of an augmented sequence of CT parameter maps" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,032, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Multimodal determination of an augmented sequence of CT parameter maps" was invented by Matthias Lichy (Nuremberg, Germany), Bernd Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a quantitative result CT parameter map in a region of interest of an object under examination is described. The method includes acquiring a sequence of quantitative input CT parameter maps for at least two predetermined times, the sequence being generated by a contrast-enhanced spectral multiphase CT...