US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on Aug. 26 for "Physiological modeling of multiphase intra-arterial CT angiography for hepatic embolization therapy" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,696, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Fla.).

"Physiological modeling of multiphase intra-arterial CT angiography for hepatic embolization therapy" was invented by John David Mayfield (Tampa, Fla.), Ghassan Elias El-Haddad (Tampa, Fla.) and Jonathan Michael Ford (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for determining areas of low blood flow, low blood perfusion, suboptimal treatment perfusion, and/or likelihood of tumor recurrence. For example patient-specific methods are provided for identifying areas of low perfusion in an anatomy of interest (such as ...