US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Sept. 9 for "Transcranial photoacoustic/thermoacoustic tomography brain imaging informed by adjunct image data" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,839, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Transcranial photoacoustic/thermoacoustic tomography brain imaging informed by adjunct image data" was invented by Lihong Wang (Arcadia, Calif.), Liming Nie (St. Louis), Xin Cai (St. Louis), Konstantin Maslov (Pasadena, Calif.), Mark A. Anastasio (St. Louis), Chao Huang (St. Louis) and Robert W. Schoonover (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of reconstructing photoacoustic imaging data corresponding to a brain of a subject through a skull of a subject utilizing a reconstruction method that incorporates a spatial ...