US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Sept. 9 for "System and method for X-ray elastography using dynamic pulsing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,884, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System and method for X-ray elastography using dynamic pulsing" was invented by Rajiv Gupta (Wayland, Mass.), Chika Kamezawa (Boston), Avilash Cramer (Cambridge, Mass.), Wolfgang Krull (Boxford, Mass.), Wataru Yashiro (Boston) and Kazuyuki Hyodo (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "X-ray absorption of breast cancers and surrounding healthy tissue can be very similar, a situation that sometimes leads to missed cancers or false-positive diagnoses. To increase the accuracy of tomosynthesis and cancer diagnosis, dynamic X-ray elastography using a novel pulse...