ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,477, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Contrast enhancement for medical imaging" was invented by Paul Roald Westwick (Vancouver, Canada), Xudong Lu (West Vancouver, Canada), Arthur E. Bailey (North Vancouver, Canada) and John J. P. Fengler (North Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of visualizing tissue of a subject includes receiving a fluorescence image of the tissue of the subject, wherein the fluorescence image comprises a plurality of intensity values, a first portion of the intensity values are associated with a first fluorescence emission that is from fluorescence agent tha...