US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 20 for "Ultrasound system and methods for smart shear wave elastography" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,548, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Ultrasound system and methods for smart shear wave elastography" was invented by Man Nguyen (Melrose, Mass.), Claudia Errico (Cambridge, Mass.), Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Boston) and Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes ultrasound systems and methods for smart shear wave elastography in anisotropic tissue. An example method may include identifying muscle fiber structures from a 3D ultrasound image dataset. The method may include providing a represe...