ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,986, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAT FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Quantitative imaging of the heart muscle" was invented by Valentina Puentmann (Eschborn, Germany) and Eike Nagel (Eschborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for non-invasive quantitative imaging of a heart, the method comprising: obtaining an initial T1 map and a T2 map of the heart, and correcting the initial T1 map using the T2 map in order to obtain a corrected T1 map, wherein the correcting the initial T1 map comprises subtracting from a value in the initial T1 m...