US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus to analyse diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,807, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus to analyse diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data" was invented by Evan Schwab (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an input unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The input unit is configured to provide the processing unit with at least one diffusion magnetic resonance imaging dMRI image of a patient's brain. The processing unit is configured to: 1) determine an estimate of an orientation of neurons at each voxel in the dMRI image; 2) determine a plurality of fiber tracts in the at least ...