US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 18 for "Scatter estimation for PET from image-based convolutional neural network" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,613, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Scatter estimation for PET from image-based convolutional neural network" was invented by Jinyi Qi (Oakland, Calif.), Tiantian Li (Oakland, Calif.), Zhaoheng Xie (Oakland, Calif.), Wenyuan Qi (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Li Yang (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Chung Chan (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Evren Asma (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer readable medium to perform nuclear medicine scatter correction estimation, sinogram estimation and image reconstruc...