US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation on April 14 for "Regional pulmonary V/Q via image registration and multi-energy CT" (Iowa, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,774, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Regional pulmonary V/Q via image registration and multi-energy CT" was invented by Eric Alfred Hoffman (Iowa City, Iowa), Seyed Mohammad Amin Motahari Bidgoli (Lynnwood, Wash.), Changhyun Lee (Iowa City, Iowa) and Joseph Marion Reinhardt (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for imaging a lung of a patient is provided. The method includes acquiring a full inspiration computed tomography (CT) scan of the lung to provide a total lung capacity (TLC) image and acquiring a functional residual capacity contrast enhanced m...