US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER on Sept. 9 for "Characterizing intra-site tumor heterogeneity" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,272, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI (Cincinnati) and CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati).

"Characterizing intra-site tumor heterogeneity" was invented by Mary Gaskill-Shipley (Cincinnati), Jinghua Wang (Mason, Ohio) and Lili He (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for measuring intra-site heterogeneity in a tumor using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The method includes acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) images using MRI modality; segmenting tumor sites in the MR images; dividing each of the tumor sites into a plurality of sub-regions; deriving image biomarkers f...