US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Feb. 10 for "System and method for flow or velocity quantification using contrast-enhanced x-ray data" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,028, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for flow or velocity quantification using contrast-enhanced x-ray data" was invented by Martin Wagner (Madison, Wis.), Joseph Whitehead (Madison, Wis.), Michael Speidel (Madison, Wis.) and Paul Laeseke (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided that includes acquiring or accessing x-ray data of a subject experiencing a delivery of a contrast agent to the vessel of the subject and generating time-attenuation curves for the vessel using the x-ray data. The method also includes identifying ...