US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for removing noise-induced bias in ultrasound blood flow imaging" (Minnesota, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,352, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for removing noise-induced bias in ultrasound blood flow imaging" was invented by Joshua D. Trzasko (Rochester, Minn.), Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minn.), Chengwu Huang (Rochester, Minn.), Pengfei Song (Champaign, Ill.) and Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for removing the bias induced by noise from power Doppler images to achieve improvements of microvessel image contrast are provided. In one example, the noise-induced bias can be suppressed by utilizing ...