ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,880, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Pie Medical Imaging B.V. (Maastricht, Netherlands).
"Flow analysis in 4D MR image data" was invented by Jean-Paul Aben (Limbricht, Netherlands), Leon Ledoux (Landgraaf, Netherlands) and Marc Maussen (Beek, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing flow analysis in a target volume of a moving organ having a long axis, such as the heart, from 4D MR Flow volumetric image data set of such organ, wherein such data set comprises structural information and three-directional velocity information of the target volume over time, the devices, program products and methods comprisin...