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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2009
Applicants:

Robert Z. Stodilka, London, CA;

Jean Theberge, London, CA;

Benoit Lewden, London, CA;

Frank S. Prato, London, CA;

R. Terry Thompson, London, CA;

Inventors:

Robert Z. Stodilka, London, CA;

Jean Theberge, London, CA;

Benoit Lewden, London, CA;

Frank S. Prato, London, CA;

R. Terry Thompson, London, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G01T 1/16 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); G01R 33/48 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01T 1/1603 (2013.01); A61B 5/0035 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 6/037 (2013.01); G01R 33/481 (2013.01); G01T 1/1647 (2013.01); A61B 2090/374 (2016.02);
Abstract

A hybrid medical imaging system comprises a nuclear medicine imaging subsystem for capturing an image of a target region of a subject, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) subsystem for capturing an MRI image of the target region based on at least one MRI parameter and processing structure communicating with the subsystems. The processing structure processes the MRI image to estimate attenuation within the target region and uses the estimated attenuation to correct the image captured by the nuclear medicine imaging subsystem.


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