US Patent Issued to Washington University on June 16 for "Systems and methods to map autoregulation of the kidney using magnetic resonance imaging" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,722, issued on June 16, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods to map autoregulation of the kidney using magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Kevin Bennett (St. Louis) and Edwin Baldelomar (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of mapping autoregulation of a kidney using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is provided. The method includes acquiring a time series of MR images of a subject while the subject is at rest by acquiring MR images of an imaging region repeatedly over a period of time by applying a pulse sequence. The imaging region includes at least a kidney of the subject. The ...