US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Dec. 9 for "SPECT system with extended axial FOV" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,943, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"SPECT system with extended axial FOV" was invented by Alexander Hans Vija (Evanston, Ill.) and Andrew Scheffel (Grayslake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a housing having a first end portion and a second end portion, a SPECT detector disposed in the housing, a first support, a first coupling coupled to the first end portion of the housing and to the first support, a second support defining a bore, and a second coupling coupled to the second end portion of the housing and to the second support, where the housing is disposed...