US Patent Issued to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment on Jan. 13 for "Determination of longitudinal position of combined phantom" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,073, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Determination of longitudinal position of combined phantom" was invented by Tao Tao Li (Shanghai), Xuan Gu (Shanghai), Yi Tian (Shanghai) and Yu Ting Lou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a longitudinal position of a combined phantom, a computer readable storage medium, and a CT device. The method includes: scanning the combined phantom to obtain a topogram thereof. The combined phantom is fixed to a table top, protrudes beyond the table top, is axially parallel to the longitudinal direction, and includes a plu...