US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on March 17 for "Mechanics-informed quantitative flow analysis of medical images of a tubular organ" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,644, issued on March 17, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Mechanics-informed quantitative flow analysis of medical images of a tubular organ" was invented by Sourav Halder (Evanston, Ill.), Ethan M. Johnson (Evanston, Ill.), Jun Yamasaki (Evanston, Ill.), Peter J. Kahrilas (Evanston, Ill.), Michael Markl (Evanston, Ill.), John Erik Pandolfino (Evanston, Ill.) and Neelesh A. Patankar (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Esophageal bolus transport and esophageal mechanics are quantified from medical imaging data, such as dynamic magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") data, computed tomography ("CT") dat...