US Patent Issued to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on Dec. 30 for "High resolution and high sensitivity PET scanner with prism-PET detector modules" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,966, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"High resolution and high sensitivity PET scanner with prism-PET detector modules" was invented by Eric Petersen (Kings Park, N.Y.), Amir H. Goldan (East Setauket, N.Y.), Andrew Labella (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Wei Zhao (East Setauket, N.Y.) and Adrian Howansky (Centereach, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a device and positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for acquiring a PET image and a system for generating the PET image. The disclosure describes a device that may have one or more movea...