US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 11 for "Collocated PET and MRI attenuation map estimation for RF coils attenuation correction via machine learning" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,045, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Collocated PET and MRI attenuation map estimation for RF coils attenuation correction via machine learning" was invented by Deepak Bharkhada (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Vladimir Panin (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and computer-implemented methods for Radio Frequency (RF) coil attenuation correction are disclosed. PET time-of-flight (TOF) data generated by a PET imaging modality collocated with an MR imaging modality is received. RF coil attenuation data is extracted from the PET TOF data and an initial RF coil a...