A61B 6/5241
Combining overlapping images of the same imaging modality
Official title: {combining overlapping images of the same imaging modality, e.g. by stitching}
A61B6/5241 (Combining overlapping images of the same imaging modality) appears on 502 US grants and 632 published applications in this corpus.
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