US Patent Issued to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on June 24 for "Quantitative dynamic MRI (QDMRI) analysis and virtual growing child (VGC) systems and methods for treating respiratory anomalies" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,839, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia).

"Quantitative dynamic MRI (QDMRI) analysis and virtual growing child (VGC) systems and methods for treating respiratory anomalies" was invented by Jayaram K. Udupa (Philadelphia), Yubing Tong (Springfield, Pa.), Drew A. Torigian (Philadelphia), You Hao (Philadelphia), Changjian Sun (Philadelphia), Joseph M. McDonough (Ambler, Pa.) and Patrick J. Cahill (Merion Station, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing thoracic insufficiency syndrome (TIS) in a subject by performing quantitative dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (Qd...