US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 18 for "Systems and methods of guided PET reconstruction with adaptive prior strength" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,539, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Systems and methods of guided PET reconstruction with adaptive prior strength" was invented by Jorge Cabello (Lenoir City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of image reconstruction are disclosed. A positron emission tomography (PET) dataset is acquired from a PET imaging modality and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dataset is obtained from an MRI modality. The MRI dataset is registered to the PET dataset. An MRI reconstructed image is generated from the MRI dataset and is registered to the PET dataset. An iterative ...