US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for enhancing lumen display in CT sectional image of blood vessel, and CT system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,384, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for enhancing lumen display in CT sectional image of blood vessel, and CT system" was invented by Xu Wang (Shanghai), Yi Tian (Shanghai), Zhen Yu Fei (Shanghai) and Wei Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to enhancing a lumen display in a CT sectional image of a blood vessel. The CT sectional image may be displayed with a first window level. An average CT value of lumen sections near the heart may be obtained, and a highest CT value of a section of a current blood vessel may also be ob...