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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2025
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Johann Sukkau, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Noah Birge, Knoxville, TN (US);
Rainer Kurth, Erlangen, DE;
Vincent Kelber, Bamberg, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include acquisition of a respective computed tomography (CT) image of each of a plurality of adjacent portions of a patient support, determination of a respective transformation matrix between each of the CT images and a corresponding portion of a predetermined linear attenuation coefficient map of the patient support, application of the respective transformation matrix to each of the CT images, generation of a respective linear attenuation coefficient map from each of the transformed CT images, combination of the linear attenuation coefficient maps into a combined linear attenuation coefficient map, and reconstruction of a positron emission tomography (PET) image based on PET data and the combined linear attenuation coefficient map.