US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Aug. 12 for "Magnetic resonance hardware-contributed attenuation in positron emission tomography" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,393, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Magnetic resonance hardware-contributed attenuation in positron emission tomography" was invented by Paul Schleyer (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Emily Anaya (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PET imaging (406) accounts for attenuation by MR hardware (110). A camera (112) captures the MR hardware (110) as positioned on or by the patient (116). For example, MR local coils to be or as positioned between the emission sources in the patient (116) and the PET detector are optically imaged (402). Image processing is used to determine (404) t...