ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,191, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Dose estimation for the irradiation of an object" was invented by Annette Birkhold (Nuremberg, Germany) and Philipp Roser (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a method for dose estimation for the irradiation of an object, a model with a total number of spatial elements is provided on a memory element. For each spatial element, the model specifies a material composition of the object. A neighborhood material composition is determined for a neighborhood of spatial elements depending on the model by a computing unit. A r...