US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 22 for "Systems and methods for lymph node and vessel imaging" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,431, issued on July 22, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for lymph node and vessel imaging" was invented by Zhongming Li (Cambridge, Mass.) and Angela Belcher (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method for imaging lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels without a contrast agent. The method includes providing, using an optical source, an infrared illumination to a region of a subject having at least one lymphatic component, detecting a reflected portion of the infrared illumination directly reflected from the region using a sensor positione...