ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,535, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).
"Focused tomography" was invented by Timothy Edward Olson (Gainesville, Fla.) and Stephanie Marie Leon (Gainesville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary focused tomography system and method involve obtaining a computed tomography scan image from a computed tomography scanner, wherein the computed tomography scan is an image of a subject that received a first radiation dosage level when a path of a radiation beam of the computed tomography scanner intersects a region of interest of the subject and that received a se...