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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
May. 03, 2023
Applicant:
GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Inventor:
Michael Wilk, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/42 (2024.01); G01T 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/005 (2013.01); A61B 6/4241 (2013.01); G01T 1/24 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various methods and systems are provided for a method for nuclear medicine (NM) imaging, comprising, acquiring imaging data with at least two energy windows, pre-processing acquired imaging data to separate distributions of scattered photons and peak photons, performing a main iterative reconstruction to reconstruct a corrected imaging using scatter correction, tailing correction, and/or scatter and tailing correction from distributions of scattered photons and peak photons, and outputting the corrected image.