ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,216, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Diffusion kurtosis imaging method, computer device and storage medium" was invented by Xiang Chen (Shanghai) and Zhen-Huan Gong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a diffusion kurtosis imaging method, which includes acquiring scan image signals of a scanned object; fitting the scan image signals using an unconstrained optimization algorithm to obtain elements of a first diffusion tensor and elements of a first kurtosis tensor; determining at least one type of parameters of diffusion tensor imaging parameters o...