US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for calcium-free computed tomography angiography" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,765, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for calcium-free computed tomography angiography" was invented by Yibin Xie (West Hollywood, Calif.), Debiao Li (South Pasadina, Calif.), Damini Dey (Los Angeles) and Yuhua Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing computed tomography (CT) images comprises receiving an initial CT image of an object, identifying calcium-free regions and a calcified region in the initial CT image of the object, generating a calcium-free image patch, and applying the calcium-free image patch to the initial CT image patch t...