US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Dartmouth College on April 29 for "Method and apparatus for medical imaging using differencing of multiple fluorophores" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,277, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Trustees of Dartmouth College.

"Method and apparatus for medical imaging using differencing of multiple fluorophores" was invented by Kenneth Tichauer (Chicago), Robert W. Holt (Lebanon, N.H.), Frederic Leblond (Montreal), Pablo Valdes (Hanover, N.H.), Brian W. Pogue (Hanover, N.H.), Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, N.H.) and David W. Roberts (Lyme, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating corrected fluorescence data of concentrations of a targeted fluorophore in tissue of a subject includes administering first and second fluorescent contrast agents to the subject, the first con...