ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,497, issued on March 3, was assigned to Perspectum Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method of analysing medical images" was invented by Matthew Robson (Oxford, Great Britain), Alex Smith (Oxford, Great Britain) and Fernandes Carolina (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analysing MRI images is described. The method comprising the steps of: acquiring a first medical MR image, and a second medical MR image, of a subject at the same nominal magnetic field strength; analysing the first and second MR images to determine a wT1 map from the first and second images; applying a field strength correction based on mod...