US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on June 2 for "Quantitative measurement of the perivascular space for CNS and brain disorders" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,433, issued on June 2, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Quantitative measurement of the perivascular space for CNS and brain disorders" was invented by Craig Ferris (Holden, Mass.), Ju Qiao (Boston), Praveen Kulkarni (East Walpole, Mass.) and Codi Gharagouzloo (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for quantification of a perivascular space in a subject's central nervous system. The methods include administering contrast agent into cerebrospinal fluid of the subject; performing quantitative ultra-short time-to-echo contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (QUTE-CE MRI) on a region of...