ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,786, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh) and WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston).
"High resolution diffuse optical tomography using short range indirect imaging" was invented by Srinivasa Narasimhan (Pittsburgh), Chao Liu (Pittsburgh), Ashutosh Sabharwal (Houston), Akash K. Maity (Houston) and Artur Dubrawski (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fast imaging apparatus and method for high resolution diffuse optical tomography with a line imaging and illumination system is disclosed. The method uses an algorithm comprising a convolution approximation of the forward heterogeneous scatteri...