ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,526, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUNDACION CENTRO DIAGNOSTICO NUCLEAR (Buenos Aires, Argentina), COMISION NACIONAL DE ENERGIA ATOMICA (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA (ArgentinaCoimbra, Portugal).

"Method for quantifying myocardial blood flow from a nuclear medicine tomographic image" was invented by Mauro Namias (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Aley Palau San Pedro (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Antero Jose Pena Afonso De Abrunhosa (Coimbra, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying myocardial blood flow (F) from a single static tomographic image of nuclear medicine, having a stage of proc...