US Patent Issued to Washington University on Aug. 11 for "Diffusion dictionary imaging (DDI) of microstructure and inflammation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,577, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Diffusion dictionary imaging (DDI) of microstructure and inflammation" was invented by Yong Wang (St. Louis) and Qing Wang (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device for diffusion dictionary imaging (DDI) of microstructure and inflammation of a patient is provided. The DDI computing device is connected to other computing devices, such as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The DDI computing device receives magnetic resonance (MR) signals from the MRI scanner. Once received, the DDI computing device records the one or more MR signals ...