US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on March 17 for "Impeded diffusion fraction for quantitative imaging diagnostic assay" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,651, issued on March 17, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Impeded diffusion fraction for quantitative imaging diagnostic assay" was invented by Dariya I. Malyarenko (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Scott D. Swanson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Thomas L. Chenevert (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for analyzing diffusion weighted images (DWI) using impeded diffusion fraction models for quantitative imaging diagnostic assay of cancer, such as glandular tissue cancers. The Impeded diffusion fraction models are tissue and cancer independent and generate a single scor...