ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,944, issued on July 29, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY (Kumamoto, Japan).
"Image processing method, image processing device, program, and recording medium for processing MRI data to determine an amount of target material" was invented by Tetsuya Yoneda (Kumamoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus processes magnetic resonance image data acquired by scanning multiple regions of a living body. An MRI imaging apparatus scans multiple regions of the living body to acquire the magnetic resonance image data. An image processing unit generates phase difference image data f...