US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 31 for "System and method for simultaneously registering multiple lung CT scans for quantitative lung analysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,987, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for simultaneously registering multiple lung CT scans for quantitative lung analysis" was invented by Daniel A. Low (Los Angeles), Dan Ruan (Los Angeles) and Anand Santhanam (Northridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for simultaneously registering a plurality of computed tomography (CT) scans of a region of interest of a subject including a subject's lungs for quantitative lung analysis includes receiving a plurality of CT scans of the region of interest acquired with a CT imaging system, receiv...