US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Aug. 5 for "Determination of metabolic rate from static pet scan" (Illinois, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,806, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Determination of metabolic rate from static pet scan" was invented by Vijay Shah (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Sven Zuehlsdorff (Oak Brook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include identification of a blood pool region of the body based on the acquired positron emission tomography data, determination of activity in the blood pool region associated with a first time based on the acquired positron emission tomography data, determination of a scale factor based on the determined activity in the blood pool region and on an input func...