US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on June 17 for "Systems and methods for low field MR/PET imaging" (Tennessee, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,550, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for low field MR/PET imaging" was invented by Bruce Spottiswoode (Knoxville, Tenn.), Sven Zuehlsdorff (Oak Brook, Ill.) and Matthias J. Schmand (Lenoir City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of PET attenuation correction using low-field MR image data includes receiving a first set of image data and a set of low-field magnetic resonance (MR) image data. An attenuation correction map is generated from the low-field MR image data using a first trained neural network. At least one attenuation correction ...