US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 30 for "System and method for confidence maps for quantitative mapping with magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,563, issued on June 30, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for confidence maps for quantitative mapping with magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Daiki Tamada (Madison, Wis.) and Scott Reeder (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for generating at least one confidence map indicating the accuracy of a quantitative map generated from magnetic resonance (MR) data acquired from a subject. The method includes accessing at least one of proton density fat fraction (PDFF) or R2* maps of a region of interest (ROI) of a subject produced usin...