A61B 6/037
Emission tomography
Official title: {Emission tomography}
A61B6/037 (Emission tomography) appears on 3,407 US grants and 4,197 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 3,407
- Published applications
- 4,197
- Assignees
- 1,073
- Inventors
- 5,925
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 36 | 7 |
| 2002 | 30 | 15 |
| 2003 | 30 | 58 |
| 2004 | 24 | 66 |
| 2005 | 34 | 68 |
| 2006 | 48 | 73 |
| 2007 | 40 | 97 |
| 2008 | 51 | 126 |
| 2009 | 53 | 142 |
| 2010 | 87 | 157 |
| 2011 | 78 | 171 |
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| 2019 | 223 | 217 |
| 2020 | 224 | 258 |
| 2021 | 213 | 303 |
| 2022 | 221 | 252 |
| 2023 | 232 | 240 |
| 2024 | 216 | 206 |
| 2025 | 199 | 170 |
| 2026 | 114 | 105 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Motion-tracked immersive functional positron emission tomography1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301947 A1Cornell University
- Systems and methods for registering radionuclide information24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283568 A1Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd.
- A portable and compact positron emission tomography (pet) system with real-time adaptability24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283569 A1Academia Sinica
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