US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on May 27 for "Helically-arranged positron emission tomography detector units" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,798, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Helically-arranged positron emission tomography detector units" was invented by Stefan B. Siegel (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ziad Burbar (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Inki Hong (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector unit for a PET imaging system is disclosed that includes a gantry having a patient-receiving tunnel, where the detector unit includes a plurality of detector elements in a helical arrangement around an axial axis of the PET imaging system."

The patent was filed on April 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/632,604.

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