ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,249, issued on March 18, was assigned to Spectrum Dynamics Medical Ltd. (Road Town, British Virgin Islands).
"Gantry rotation" was invented by Nathaniel Roth (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yoel Zilberstien (Herzlia, Israel), Shlomo Ben-Haim (Chatelaine, Switzerland) and Benny Rousso (Rishon-LeZion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear medicine tomography system comprising: a detector carrier having a circular or partially circular aperture and defining a plane; a plurality of SPECT detector assemblies attached to the detector carrier and arranged around the aperture; a patient carrier movable relative to the plane; each detector ass...