ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,846, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to XEOS MEDICAL NV (Ghent, Belgium).

"Imaging apparatus for imaging ex-vivo tissue specimens" was invented by Roel Van Holen (Melsen, Belgium), Vincent Keereman (Ghent, Belgium) and Jared W. Moore (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus for imaging ex-vivo tissue specimens includes a positron emission tomography imaging module having at least one pair of PET detectors; a computed tomography imaging module including an X-ray source and an X-ray detector; a tissue specimen receiving element configured to receive the tissue specimen to be imaged."

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